“Living Buddhas”
These Buddha prints, images and paintings are here to serve as a moment of recollection and inspiration saying “wake up, see this love that we all are right now !” These artworks turn homes and spaces and ourselves back toward that inner beauty without becoming objects of worship, or subjects of suffering, but rather by being part of universal life veneration. (Continued at bottom of page.)
What is Buddha?
In this instance Buddha is art. Buddha is making a life worth living.
In fact here Buddha is a painting, a print, or a multimedia piece that is the shape and form of what is commonly known as Buddha, but what is Buddha? What about the unknown Buddha?
The true shape and form of Buddha is you, your life, your awakened nature, and your spontaneous, indestructible love. We know this, and yet we forget this about ourselves and about so called others. How is that so? Because we are human, we make mistakes, and the human world has human beings, and humans being Buddha. It happens every day. Some say it happens every moment, and some call it something different. How wonderful. In fact some say that it happens to be that we are all Buddhas because we live in a world with distress, difficulty, anxieties, depressions and flowers. Flowers bloom and flowers wilt. We live and we die, and we are all Buddhas, or some other nice concept. Humans have lots of concepts and thinking and it tends to get in the way of that human being Buddha and this human being Buddha. I need reminders, lots of them, to remind me that I and so called “others” are also Buddhas. That’s why I make Buddhas, because Buddhas don’t make me. Even Clint Eastwood holding a gun saying “make my Buddha” pointed right at you is intrinsically a Buddha.
In other words, Buddha is who I really am when I am in love, in love with life, with so called others and with the ending of distress and pain, so Buddha forms remind me of who I am, and yet I don’t have to worship them. In fact we cannot worship the images or statues of Buddha because Buddha is not outside of you or me. Maybe people who say they are worshiping are not really worshiping, just like the word suffering in Buddhism is not quite clear.