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In Zen Buddhism it is said that our bodies and minds are 'fleeting', "they're changing-always,in every moment...In fact we are nothing but change itself".
"Everything in our experience - our bodies, our minds, our thoughts, our wants and needs, our relationships - are fleeting. Changing, subject to death. We die in each moment and again, in each moment, we are born. This process of birth and death goes on endlessly, moment after moment, right before our eyes. Everything is nothing but change".
quotes from: 'Buddhism plain and simple", Steve Hagen.

Fire as an energy of this transforming/renewing process is described by the Mystic/Lover Jelaluddin Rumi so:
"A chickpea leaps almost
over the rim of the pot
where it's being boiled.
"Why are you doing this to me?"
"Don't you try to jump out.
You think I'm torturing you.
I'm giving you flavor,
so you can mix with spices and rice
and be the lovely vitality of a human being.
Remember when you drank rain in the garden?
That was for this."
Grace first, sexual pleasure.
Then a boiling new life begins,
and the friend has something good to eat.
Eventually the chickpea will say to the cook,
"Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimmimg spoon.
I can't do this by myself.
You're my cook, my driver,
my way into existance.
I love your cooking."

quote: The Illuminated Rumi..Translations by Coleman Barks.

And out of these flames arises the Pheonix - Bird of Life and Living....

I waited a long time to get this painting together..
Acrylic on canvas.

Description
In Zen Buddhism it is said that our bodies and minds are 'fleeting', "they're changing-always,in every moment...In fact we are nothing but change itself".
"Everything in our experience - our bodies, our minds, our thoughts, our wants and needs, our relationships - are fleeting. Changing, subject to death. We die in each moment and again, in each moment, we are born. This process of birth and death goes on endlessly, moment after moment, right before our eyes. Everything is nothing but change".
quotes from: 'Buddhism plain and simple", Steve Hagen.

Fire as an energy of this transforming/renewing process is described by the Mystic/Lover Jelaluddin Rumi so:
"A chickpea leaps almost
over the rim of the pot
where it's being boiled.
"Why are you doing this to me?"
"Don't you try to jump out.
You think I'm torturing you.
I'm giving you flavor,
so you can mix with spices and rice
and be the lovely vitality of a human being.
Remember when you drank rain in the garden?
That was for this."
Grace first, sexual pleasure.
Then a boiling new life begins,
and the friend has something good to eat.
Eventually the chickpea will say to the cook,
"Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimmimg spoon.
I can't do this by myself.
You're my cook, my driver,
my way into existance.
I love your cooking."

quote: The Illuminated Rumi..Translations by Coleman Barks.

And out of these flames arises the Pheonix - Bird of Life and Living....

I waited a long time to get this painting together..
Acrylic on canvas.