The Significance of Lotus in Buddhism

Posted by Bapak on Friday, September 30, 2011



is the consummate flower of Lotus in the Buddhist world. For some people, it May be just a simple decorative plant, but the deep meaning of the Buddhists. In Buddhism, the lotus is a symbol of the true nature of being bića.Pravi character remains pure and spotless from the mud of the earth and can only be understood prosvjetljenje.Lotos flower grows in water, but it just rises to the top surface of the bloom in extraordinary način.Cvijet closes and goes under the surface at night and then rising out of the bud at sunrise. That is why it symbolizes purity of heart and mind, since it is not influenced by impurities.

Mahayana Buddhists place emphasis on the lotus flower as a representation of the model Bodhisattve.Bodhisattva Mahanayas practitioner who dedicates his life completely to save other beings. Just as the lotus plants built under the shallow and muddy water, but whose flowers rise above the surface, Nirvana Bodhisattva also skips to remain in the cycle of life and death for the salvation of sentient beings.

lotus flower is an appropriate allegory of his own spiritual journey. It refers to an absolute improvement of body, mind and emerging decent djela.Bijele petals represent the purity of the stem indicates the worship Buddhist teachings that separates the mind from worldly things. Open bloom shows a lot of enlightenment as close bloom indicates the possibility that prosvijetlio.Lotos means that even if we are aware of what is happening around us, we should have hope and determination in our practice to become a real Bodhisattve.Lotus not just decoration. This view is the ideal life.

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