The Wisdom That Knows What Is Not Self
I've been drawing and painting dragons since I was a child. This is my favorite painting. Finished back in 1997. I didn't sign my paintings back then. My daughter just told me after I pulled this painting from storage, I need to sign and date this piece.
This Dragon is female, she is the last of her kind, still very young and inexperienced. She is guarding the eyes of her clans elder dragons, which contain the wisdom of their lifetime. Dragons can live thousands of human lifetimes before they pass away.
There Are Positive Dragons And Negative Dragons (Nagas).
"In Himalayan Buddhism, these water nagas are keepers of secret books of wisdom. They can be generous, but they also have the ability to let loose diseases and epidemics. They are propitiated with suitable offerings. " Nagas can bring rain and love water, war and pollution makes them very angry, which can unleash their power to manifest disease, drought, and famine.
Western Dragon Mythology
"In the west, the dragon is an evil beast. There are many myths and legends of dragon slayers such as Hercules and Seguird."
The real Dragon is you, your ego, by Joseph Campbell
This is very beautiful dear friend @reddust congratulations for this beautiful work, thank you very much for sharing
You are welcome dear friend @jlufer🌸
Excellent post! I like your work
Thank you @mars9🌸
excellent drawing, excellent post @reddust!
@natureofbeing, thank you, some of my favorite studies ....anicca, anatta, dukkha and I didn't know dragons were tied to the ego through myth, the slaying of a dragon is destruction of clinging to what is not self, as Joseph Campbell said, the ego!
http://en.dhammadana.org/dhamma/3_characteristics.htm
Nice work. Dragons have so many different traditions in art. It is interesting that there are different mythos. Cudos!
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Very beautiful. Always been enamored of dragons.
Thank you @ddschteinn, I like to draw dragons because they are so easy and fun to draw...😁
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