The back is engraved with the Pali word - Pathavisanna - a Theravadan Buddhist meditation: all material objects are only manifestations of the same ‘earth’ element; any value we attach to them is illusory.
Bruce Chatwin wrote that Buddha’s final words were “Walk on!” - an exhortation not to sink not into the world, to cling to things. How hard that is.
Indeed.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog.