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mandala

On-Yomi: マン

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 28-11-2006(39): Spending the day with your eye on your crotch as you meditate on the mandala.

2) [woelpad] 28-2-2008(17): Citing my story for ridicule (#829 慢): "It's clearly an Indian mandala, with the Buddha sitting cross-legged, eyes closed as in trance, beneath the sun, a symbol of the enlightenment which one can reach by practicing His teachings.".

3) [eatyoda] 10-12-2008(9): Same as primitive: a mandala has three circles centering on one point. The outer circle is the sun which represents the spiritual, what we can't comprehend; the middle is the eye which represents the feelings of man; the inner is a crotch that represents our carnal instincts.

4) [zazen666] 15-1-2008(8): Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala People usually mediate with staring at the sun with their eyes, cross (crotch) legged. Here, sun=mandala.

5) [koohiikun] 1-6-2010(7): The mandala is a graphic representation of the universe: the sun representing the cosmos, the eye represents the human observer, and the crotch represents animal instincts. (Thanks for original story by Codexus.).

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