Feather Muse
For Terri
An Asiatic species, the peafowl, or peacock has been ascribed rich meaning, accompanied by elaborate folklore, song and story, developed across many cultures and faiths over time. (Indian, Greco-Roman-Persian-Kurdish, Hindu-Christian, and Buddhist)
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TURNING POISON INTO MEDICINE
Buddhists associate peacock feathers with openness, since the birds display everything when they spread their tails. Buddhists also interpret the bird’s diet of sometimes poisonous plants (they are omnivores) into the ability to thrive in the face of suffering, digesting a bitter diet of nettles into what is needed to produce the beautiful colors of those feathers. This becomes the potent metaphor for turning poison into medicine.
The teaching further suggests that those antgonists we consider our enemies, are actually our best friends, since they show us where we are still stuck, where we can be hooked-into and tripped up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
TURNING POISON INTO MEDICINE
Buddhists associate peacock feathers with openness, since the birds display everything when they spread their tails. Buddhists also interpret the bird’s diet of sometimes poisonous plants (they are omnivores) into the ability to thrive in the face of suffering, digesting a bitter diet of nettles into what is needed to produce the beautiful colors of those feathers. This becomes the potent metaphor for turning poison into medicine.
The teaching further suggests that those antgonists we consider our enemies, are actually our best friends, since they show us where we are still stuck, where we can be hooked-into and tripped up.
A VERY HUMAN STORY
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EAST ASIAN BIRD + MORE MOTIFS
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2 comments:
just love seeing peacocks. brought home lots of peacock feathers from Israel when i was there in the 1960s. i was a nightmare to customs with all of nature that i brought home. my sister has them walking around in her neighborhood here in austin. and thanks for that last link...lots of maps that will help me with the back of my magic cloth.
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