Tales from the Island of Serendip 4 4

[Flex Mentallo]

The experience of life becomes luminous and clear. Yoga is not philosophy. It is more like swimming. Through mutual adoration lovemaking becomes a ritual dance, performed unashamedly in public. It is holy joy.

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

It is, in a word, innocent.

 

 

Edited September 6, 2014 by Flex Mentallo

[eman13]

Yet again ,fantastic job Michael! I always learn something new with your thread here, and how I percieved hinduism was not inline with what it truly is, which you helped clarify for me as of recent.

Thank you

[Flex Mentallo]

Yet again ,fantastic job Michael! I always learn something new with your thread here, and how I percieved hinduism was not inline with what it truly is, which you helped clarify for me as of recent.

Thank you

 

My pleasure.

 

 

[Duffman_Comics]

Still one of my favourite threads, although my inner philistine was not so much awakened by the existential nature of the statuary, but a rather baser "wow, look at the breasts" kind of thing .

 

You are right about how difficult it is to get to Khajuraho. Nothing thereabouts (other than the temple complex) to recommend either.

[MrBedrock]

"wow, look at the breasts"

(thumbs u

[MrBedrock]

I would love to one day see those Hindu temples. Angkor Wat is very similar, and the Cham temples in Viet Nam on a smaller scale...though the boobs on either of those aren't as big.

[Flex Mentallo]

Still one of my favourite threads, although my inner philistine was not so much awakened by the existential nature of the statuary, but a rather baser "wow, look at the breasts" kind of thing .

 

You are right about how difficult it is to get to Khajuraho. Nothing thereabouts (other than the temple complex) to recommend either.

 

People come from all over the world for that very reason. But they say it is to experience the existential nature of the statuary.

[Flex Mentallo]

I would love to one day see those Hindu temples. Angkor Wat is very similar, and the Cham temples in Viet Nam on a smaller scale...though the boobs on either of those aren't as big.

 

Got any photos?

[MrBedrock]

I would love to one day see those Hindu temples. Angkor Wat is very similar, and the Cham temples in Viet Nam on a smaller scale...though the boobs on either of those aren't as big.

 

Got any photos?

I'll post some soon...I need to upload them.

[Flex Mentallo]

I would love to one day see those Hindu temples. Angkor Wat is very similar, and the Cham temples in Viet Nam on a smaller scale...though the boobs on either of those aren't as big.

 

Got any photos?

I'll post some soon...I need to upload them.

 

Great - I've been hoping you would.

[Flex Mentallo]

Reprise

 

It is January 1982. I am thirty years of age, and I stand on Puri beach. I have no camera, so must make do with a sketch pad.

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

I sketch the tribal fishermen hauling their boats ashore through the heavy surf.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

I sketch the pilgrims. Each sketch takes scant minutes, for all is in motion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2014 by Flex Mentallo

[Flex Mentallo]

Having offloaded their catch, the fishermen head back out through the rolling breakers into the Bay of Bengal. They will fish, and eat, and sleep upon the ocean.

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

As I sketch, I think back scant days to my first visit to Nirmal's village, and the intense impact that has had on me.

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

I cannot know that my future will be intimately intertwined with that of the villagers and Paddyfield School.

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

But those moments are now fixed, like still lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

At Konarak. I look at the sandstone statues. I notice the rounded solidity of the carved forms that burgeon from the stone as though it were the ground of being.

 

 

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

But most of all I notice the breathing texture of the stone, and its sunlit warmth...