The Forest Sculptures of Victoria’s Way

 

7 forest sculptures Victoria’s Way (Sanskrit: Jina marga, meaning the Way to Liberation ≈ moksha (or mukti), achieved by the Buddha @ samyak-sambodhi)) represent the stages, indeed a cross’roads or impasses on the journey to the full realization of one’s true self (read: atta or atma). The individual who responds naturally and spontaneously to the world, i.e. who lives an authentic life, completes the journey easily, achieves fulfilment and is rewarded with joy. However, the ‘cultured’ or over-regulated individual, the one who has lost the capacity to act and respond spontaneously, encounters many obstacles, consequently fails to attain and becomes distressed.

 

The 7 phases or stages, here representing Siddartha’s (prototypical) transition from un-freedom and distress to liberation and bliss highlight the struggle of every person towards attaining the experience of true being.

 

 

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Awakening Birth of Consciousness The Beginner's Mind        The Great Goddess, Durga Separating into 'self' and 'other' to prepare differencial contact, realness and consciousness        The Split Man The dysfunctional human who can't get it together, therefore make whole contact The unspiritual being        The Saklyamuni suppressing the desire for life The ematiated bodhisattva Gautama

    Awakening                  Separation                   Split Man                  Condensation

          Bodhi                             Relativization                           Dukkha                               Muni

 

Create or die, the Divine order Differential touch gives life (animates), hence is spiritual                    Desire (indeed heat) extinguisehed Mr Cool, the Nirvana Man              Death of the Ferryman Decay, disconnection Loss of spiritual ability because of loss of the 'touch' that animates    

                         Create or die                    Released                     The Ferryman’s End           

                     Linga/atma                                   Nirvana                                 Parinirvana                                

 

 

   

     Eva, Eva, Ava Chavvah, 'The mother of all living'  Lord Shiva

                  Spiritual Wisdom                                 Seat Eve                         Lord Shiva

 

Ganesh Sculptures

 

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