CA$525
Approx. 23 x 18 cm
I “celebrated” one of my birthdays at a Buddhist temple on Mt Koya in Japan. We experienced daily life within a working temple, following their practice of chanting at 5 am, bathing at 4 pm, vegetarian meals, and sleeping on tatami mats. Days were filled in quietude walking through forests and gardens.
In Japanese Buddhism, the moon symbolizes enlightenment, a liberation from suffering, and progress towards inner truth.
My own inner core has changed – once a full moon, now a thin crescent. What does it mean to have our body altered? Something added, something taken away. Cells growing, dying and being regenerated.
Amid all these changes, I find serenity by focusing on the core. My central moon passes through phases that echo the rhythms of life – birth and death, revealing and hiding.
Transformed.
