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“allow the pieces to fall apart no matter how rough it feels, allow what doesn’t want to stick to crumble away beautifully, allow what has no desire to stay to find a home elsewhere, allow the energy of everything shifting from you to create space for everything that you need.”

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“forgive all the versions of yourself that operated out of fear instead of growth, the ones that viewed comfort zones as safe havens and abandoned boundaries to keep other people happy, forgive all the versions of yourself that didn’t know that love begins with how you treat you.”

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Design graphics Geya Shvecova (Destruction of material desires) Archive_181121

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The Quest for Buddhism (11)

The family of Siddhartha (Buddha)

Queen Maya – The Mother

Queen Maya of Shakya was the birth mother of Gautama Siddhartha (Buddha), the sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. She was older sister of Mahaprajapati Gotamī who was the stepmother of Buddha and the first Buddhist nun ordained by the Buddha.

According to the Lalitavistara , in the month of Vaishya (the second month of the Hindu calendar), Maya had a dream in which a white elephant with six white tusks entered her right side and she conceived Siddhartha.

On her way back to her hometown, she stopped at a garden in Lumbini, where she reached out to pick up a flower (the Asoka tree in the northern tradition and the Sala tree in the southern tradition), and the Buddha was born from her right side.

Maya means “illusion” in Sanskrit. In Buddhist tradition Maya died 7 days after the birth of Buddha, and came to life again in Trayastrimsa (Hindu-Buddhist heaven). Thus Maya did not raise her son who was instead raised by his maternal aunt Mahapajapati Gotami. Maya would, however, on occasion descend from Heaven to give advice to her son.

仏教の探求 (11)

お釈迦さまの家族

摩耶夫人 (まや-ふじん、梵: マーヤー)〜母

釈迦族の王妃摩耶夫人(以下：マーヤー)は、仏教を創始した聖人、釈迦(梵：シッダールタ)の生母である。マーヤーは、釈迦の継母、そして釈迦により出家した最初の尼僧、摩訶波闍波提 (まか・はじゃはだい、梵：マハー・プラジャーパティー)の姉である。

『方広大荘厳経』（ほうこうだいしょうごんきょう、梵：ラリタ・ヴィスタラ）などによれば、マーヤーはヴァイシャーカ月（インドの暦では第2の月）に6本の白い牙を持つ白い象が自分の右脇腹に入ってくる夢を見てシッダールタを懐妊したとされている。

その出産の様も、郷里に帰る途中に立ち寄ったルンビニーの園で花（北方伝では無憂樹〈むゆうじゅ、梵：アソッカ〉、南方伝では娑羅双樹〈さらそうじゅ、梵：サール〉）を手折ろうと手を伸ばしたところ、右脇から釈迦が生まれたと伝える。

マーヤーはサンスクリット語で「幻想」を意味する。仏教の伝統では、マーヤーは釈迦の誕生後7日後に亡くなり、忉利天(とうりてん、梵：トラヤストリムサ〈ヒンデゥ教と仏教の天国〉)で再び息を吹き返したが、マーヤーは息子を育てず、シッダールタは母方の叔母、後の継母マハー・プラジャーパティーに育てられた。しかし、マーヤーは時々、天から降りてきて、息子に助言を与えることがあった。

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my sister made an ephemera wall in her room and this is the result :)

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‘rainbow-trip’

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For most of us, attachment to our thoughts and feelings—our inner monologues—defines who we are. They are all that we’ve ever known about ourselves. We’re completely entwined with them, and we find it difficult to understand that we are more than just our narratives, likes and dislikes—that we are originally free.

- Guo Gu

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The Leshan Buddha | China

at 71 metres is the tallest stone Buddha statue in the world, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang dynasty).