Role models

 

Meeting..... HAPPY SCULPTURES

.I don't like the people in this ashram that much. 

 Even the guru does not radiate conviction.  

But there are wonderful faces at the top of the temple.

 

 

 

 

 

A satisfied, confident look.  

 

There's more to it than that. 

 

  Something inside radiates outward.

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This one is meditating with a skull.  

 

His body completely relaxed.  

 

His death doesn't seem to be a problem.

 

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I can no longer recognize 

 

 whether that's the face

 

  of a man or a woman.

 

  Is there gender-neutral happiness?

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This one looks up in the way  

 

as if there were something  

 

what is also in him.

 

 

 

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Now that I see those faces up close again as I post, 

 tears well up in my eyes.  

 

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Going through the whole gallery, almost 100 happy sculptures ...

Shree Guru Gorakshanath Shiv Panchaytan Mandir Trust Galana (Maharashtra)

 

... be slowly transformed.

 

 

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Meeting..... A DEAD ANIMAL

Many kilometers of roadside walking.

There's something.

A whitish animal.

Dead.

I don't like to take a closer look.

Dead animals look terrible.

How scared am I of death?

I too could get run over on the side of the road.

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I am not afraid.

And I decide to take a closer look at the dead animal

and to work compassion and blessings.

The fur still looks so pure and soft and beautiful.

It would have been nice to pet you while you were alive.

WHERE and WHATEVER you are now - you had a beautiful body.

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I am thankful for my body.

And I want to present it beautifully.

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Meeting..... GOL GUMBAZ

What does that mean to you

noble ruler,

for your remaining dust

to take up so much space?

The closer me my zoom

leads to your grave

the more amazed I am

about the luxury of size.

 

I wonder,

if I want to be that big

like your tomb.

 

I'm afraid.

I'm inhibited.

I don't allow myself

to grow big.

Not at the moment.

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I want to find the growth inhibitors. 

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Meeting..... A DIVINE CHILD

Still searching for the divine,

 deep self in my being.

 There is another wayside shrine.

You have to get close to see something.

 Ah yes, Jesus in his mother's arms.

 As so often, Maria is beautifully painted.

But beauty helps me

 on the way to my own sanctification

 not further.

 

 Stays the child.

 It doesn't look

 like a god or world ruler.

The face surrendered trustingly.

 Everything is in the best of order

 in mother's arms

 and

 in the depths of myself.

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Meeting..... THIRTHANKAR

So many temples here.

Filled with seated or standing gurus.

A gold-plated variant can be seen here.

A beautiful calm radiates from the sculpture.

Concentrated and critically aware.

And a radiant exterior.

Even with a halo.

But there is something

behind this concentrated beauty!

The exterior becomes unclear;

someone else is behind him.

It is closer to the halo.

The being behind surprises me.

That's how it is with our superficial ego

and the true self behind it.

The front is illusion.

But behind there is 

the pure, timeless, sacred, imperturbable.

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Meeting.....VETHATHIRI MAHARISHI

That's me down here on the right:

I don't like the way I look:

Much too ambitious and aimed at external effect.

In contrast, the face of the master.

The first sight of his picture

triggers a deep emotion in me:

Its warm radiance calls for an echo within me.

 

 

Kind Master!

Kind Master within me: Hear!

Joy in existence - joy in fellow human beings - joy in what is.

Become!

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Meeting.....GHANDI 

Hey, I know this famous face.

You meditate, I like that. 

I look at you.

Your eyes are closed.

Peaceful happiness radiates from your still face.

I close my own eyes.

Your picture touches me! 

Was that the artist?

or did you really radiate such a beauty?

I take a closer look:

Your closed eyes 

are beautiful!!

Being with yourself - quiet happiness - inner joy.

I close my wet eyes.

It's also in me somewhere.

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