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Aug. 26th, 2010 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadedmusingsFor nearly a decade now I've been collecting Buddha statues here and there. I'm not Buddhist, but there's just some sort of spiritual attraction to Buddha and the different aspects of him depicted in statues and figurines. There's just something inside of me that feels calmed by focusing on an image of a meditating Buddha. I can't really explain it. I liken it to the way my grandmother collected owl figurines or my aunt's obsession with collecting roosters (don't ask -- I think it's a University of South Carolina thing), except there is definitely a more spiritual connection for my "collection."
I mention this because Deec, my friend of many years, called me yesterday to verify my new address and told me he had a housewarming gift for me. (He's thrilled I'm out of Barnwell since he grew up there too and knows what it's like for people like us.) Well, I forgot Deec works at a FedEx/Kinko's so my package got here in under 24 hours. And this is what was in it:
My new Buddha statue (with some incense burning in front of it).
I'm hoping to set up a permanent altar soon (I need to hit the thrift stores to look for some new furniture stuff) and I think this Buddha will have a home there simply because the present meant a lot to me and it touched me that he remembered this one little thing about me.
If you look on the far right, you'll see a jade Buddha that Deec also bought for me years ago at a gem and mineral show in Columbia that he attended with his then-wife. It's supposed to go on a necklace, but I've never gotten a cord for it because it never seemed right to wear it. At least, not yet. So, for now, it sits with the rest of my Buddhas.
I mention this because Deec, my friend of many years, called me yesterday to verify my new address and told me he had a housewarming gift for me. (He's thrilled I'm out of Barnwell since he grew up there too and knows what it's like for people like us.) Well, I forgot Deec works at a FedEx/Kinko's so my package got here in under 24 hours. And this is what was in it:
My new Buddha statue (with some incense burning in front of it).
I'm hoping to set up a permanent altar soon (I need to hit the thrift stores to look for some new furniture stuff) and I think this Buddha will have a home there simply because the present meant a lot to me and it touched me that he remembered this one little thing about me.
If you look on the far right, you'll see a jade Buddha that Deec also bought for me years ago at a gem and mineral show in Columbia that he attended with his then-wife. It's supposed to go on a necklace, but I've never gotten a cord for it because it never seemed right to wear it. At least, not yet. So, for now, it sits with the rest of my Buddhas.
