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Gold Enlightened Walking Buddha Statue 24"

Gold Enlightened Walking Buddha Statue 24"
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Materials: Thai Polished Brass

Total Height Including Base: 24 inches

Base Width & Depth: 6 x 6.5 inches

Weight: 11 pounds

Item # 55t11

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  • This beautiful version of a walking Lord Buddha is very unique. Lord Buddha is depicted in the abhaya mudra or fear not hand gesture in a walking pose directly after his enlightenment. The pose is very unique in that his body is purposely disjointed and not proportionate. His right shoulder is slung back in an awkward position. His head is hung forward looking down at the ground. A side view of his body shows the Buddha to be in a zig zag body pattern. This disjointed figure is a representation of the Buddha existing both on a higher plain of enlightenment while also existing living on earth. Almost as if his body is being torn between two existences. A wonderful sculpture to ponder.

    The Buddha is cast from brass and then polished which gives it a beautiful bright gold shine.  Gold Buddha statues are commonly used for temples within Thailand.  Thai devotees often place a square of gold leaf on the Buddha when they go to temple to give offerings to Lord Buddha.

  • "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
     ~ Buddha~
    The Buddha, whose original name was Siddhartha Gautama, was the founder of Buddhism, the religion and the philosophical system that produced a great culture throughout much of southern and eastern Asia.  Buddha, meaning "awakened one" or "enlightened one" is a title not a name.  In Hindu Dogma, the Buddha is viewed as being the 9th avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
    The Buddha was a son of the rulers Sakyas.  He was married at the age of 16 and lived in luxury and comfort sheltered from the harsh realities of life.  When he was 29 he realized that men are subject to old age, sickness and death.  He became aware of the suffering inherent in existence.  He resolved to give up princely life and become a wandering ascetic (samana) in search for the Truth.
    With the two of samanas he attained mystical states of elevated consciousness but he failed to find the Truth.  He continued his search and was joined by five ascetics in a grove near Uruvela, where he practiced sever austerities and self-mortification for six years.  When he fainted away in weakness, he abandoned ascetic practices to seek his own path to Enlightenment.  Discarding the teachings of his contemporaries, through meditation he achieved Enlightenment, or ultimate understanding.  There after the Buddha instructed his followers in the dharma (truth) and the "Middle Way" a path between worldly life and extremes of self-denial. 
    The essence of the Buddha's early preaching was said to be the four Noble truths: 1) life is fundamentally disappointment and suffering.  2) suffering is a result of one's desires for pleasure, power, and continued existence; 3) to stop disappointment and suffering on must stop desiring; and 4) the way to stop desiring and thus suffering is the Noble eight fold path - right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right awareness and right concentration.  The realization of the truth of anatman (no eternal self) was taught as essential for the indescribable state of release called nirvana.

     

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  • Dust the piece as needed. If you would like the piece to shine use a cotton cloth with some coconut oil or other natural oil to wipe down the statue.