Red Lotus Essay

Meditation is very difficult to describe and can only truly be explained once experienced. It is the practice of mental concentration leading ultimately through a sequence of stages to the final goal of spiritual freedom, nirvana. The purpose of Buddhist meditation is to free ourselves from the delusion and thereby put an end to both ignorance and craving. The Buddhists describe the culminating trance-like state as transient; final Nirvana requires the insight of wisdom. The exercises that are meant to develop wisdom involve meditation on the true nature of reality or the conditioned and unconditioned elements that make up all phenomena. The goal of meditation is to develop a concept in the mind.

In The Red Convertible, LouiseErdrich uses the red convertible to symbolize the theme of change in two brothers relationship. The changes in the car parallel with the changes the brothers go through. As the car evolves, so does the relationship between Lyman and Henry. The two brothers have a close bond until Henry is sent off to war. Upon his arrival home, the changes in Henry and how he relates to his brother is apparent.

In the Red Lotus of chastity, two characters Devasmita and the nun are implementing the same concept from the Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. They followed the Machiavellian concept of being a lion and a fox. Devasmita was Guhasena’s wife and while her husband was far a way from her they promised each other to keep red louts in their hand. Whoever commits adultery in the absence of the other; the lotus will wither away and will be unfaithful. The nun was planning to undo the chastity of Devasmita while Devasmita was trying hard to protect it. Both Devasmita and the nun acted cleverly as a fox. However, Devasmita continued acting like super fox until she rescues her husband from death, while the nun ended up acting like a lion.

It can be seen in the novel that Anaya uses animals as a way to symbolize good and evil. He uses an owl to represent Ultima, and to portray as a good character. Many people believe that Ultima is truly a bruja simply based

Two characters in “Red Lotus of Chastity” Devasmita and the Nun, both have some similarities with Machiavelli’s concepts in “The Prince”. Through the narrative, both characters strive to follow Machiavelli’s concept of being the fox and the lion. However, in the turn of events, only Devasmita is victorious in being both the fox and lion while the nun is portrayed as a power greedy lion dressed in a fox clothes. The Machiavelli concept of being a lion and fox means that to attain victory in the battlefield, one must be deceitful, cunning and strong like both animals. “One should therefore select either being a fox or the lion because the lion cannot protect itself from traps it encounters, and the fox which cannot protect itself from wolves” (2528 Prince). The explanation of this according to Machiavelli is that one has to have the instincts and strength of a lion to guard themselves from outside invasion with sheer force and power. However, in an unfortunate turn of events and the encounter be one of intellect, one should be able to quickly adapt thus possessing the

     Detectives are always looking for little pieces of evidence when investigating a crime. After all, it is this evidence that can turn a trial around, whether be it for the good or bad. This is especially the case in Susan Glaspell's Trifles. When Mrs. Hale comes across little pieces of evidence, she passes them off as being "trifles", hiding them from the detective. She is the sole reason that very little evidence is collected that would convict Mrs. Wright, and can be believed to have some sort of involvement in the murder of John Wright.

Edward Taylor’s “Meditation Six” uses a coin-based conceit to explore the ambivalence of the persona; using the coin, Taylor describes his spiritual value to God in material terms. The first stanza reflects an uncertainty within Taylor about his worth to God. He equates himself to gold, asking if he is “thy gold” (1) or merely a vessel for God’s wealth—the congregation. The speaker worries he may only appear to be worthful to God, but he is worthless underneath and “brass in heart,” alluding to the Brazen Serpent of the Bible. Working through his ambivalence, the speaker compares the impression of the grace of God to the stamp on a coin, and he asks if God has left such an impression on him, stamping value onto worthless metal. Taylor writes that he is “a golden angel” in God’s hand, meaning he is valuable to God, which ends his ambivalence as he concludes that he is worthful as a man. In the final stanza, the speaker asks God to make his soul the plate, a blank coin, onto which God stamps value with his “superscription in a holy style” (16). The speaker then becomes a coin with value to God, part of God’s hoard, whereby Taylor acknowledges that he is one of many. A surrender ends the conceit and poem, the speaker asks if he may be an angel, period slang for an English coin, in God’s eyes and if God may be his Lord.

Foxes symbolize as tricksters who play pranks. Kitsunes are tricksters too, but they do it against bad people. In Naruto, the demon fox have the same abilities as a kitsune. However, he is not a trickster but instead he is selfish. He just wants to be free from Naruto by controlling him with hatreds.

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

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At first glance, Reiki might seem like an off-handed metaphysical idea, but it has been proven to aid in a multitude of health issues, including fertility.

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     Many people wonder if heaven exists, and if so, what it consists of. There are many theories that will tell you different stories of heaven. In the bible heaven it is named Eden, where man can walk and talk at the side of God. Heaven is an intangible place where only the true ideals of life can be realized. On earth there is no way to know the true meaning of life. People can never fully comprehend the reason behind existence. The human world is full of many outside sources, such as evil, corrupting many lives. There will never be peace on earth due to that corruption. Many people are envious of other lives and are bound by senseless ideals. They spend much of their life with the want for