“When dining on austerity,

Every bit gets split;

Because that’s how a meal's enjoyed!”

- the Crow

Nalagiri tore through the streets of Rajagaha in a bloody rampage. From their stilt houses and rooftops, people hurled whatever they could at the enraged elephant as he trampled, gored, and crushed those below.

The Buddha had rejected miracles and forbade his disciples from performing them — because the liberation that he taught was not magic, it was attainable through practice.

So many were astonished when he announced that he would attend the Festival of Miracles.

One of the Buddha’s honorifics was the ‘Great Physician’. To have the patience of a doctor one must be patient three-fold!

The lotus flower is a beloved symbol of non-attachment because even though it sprouts in the mud, grows in the water, and blossoms in the mist and rain - there are no drops on the lotus!

Like the vital conditions necessary for a plant to grow into fullness — when there is sense restraint, it unfolds into ethical conduct, then into right immersion, then into a true knowledge and vision, then into a disillusionment and dispassion, and then finally into a knowledge and vision of freedom!’ (AN 6.50)

Like the blossoming of a lotus!

The image is made up of a field of "Spectres"; strictly chiral aperiodic monotiles. One-sided asymmetric tiles that completely cover a plane in an irregular non-repeating pattern. 

The ascetic Gotama was thin as a skeleton, starving, and surviving off mere grains of rice. He had become so emaciated and weak that when he went down to the river, he wasn’t strong enough to get back out - and almost got washed away.