A Recovery Blog
This blog is about my continuing recovery from severe mental illness and addiction. I celebrate this recovery by continuing to write, by sharing my music and artwork and by exploring Buddhist and 12 Step ideas and concepts. I claim that the yin/yang symbol is representative of all of us because I have found that even in the midst of acute psychosis there is still sense, method and even a kind of balance. We are more resilient than we think. We can cross beyond the edge of the sane world and return to tell the tale. A deeper kind of balance takes hold when we get honest, when we reach out for help, when we tell our stories.
2 comments:
Hi Kate,
Interesting idea to post only a photo. Was that the idea? Anyway, I studied Tibetan Buddhism pretty seriously, come from Jewish roots and have close Christian friends. So...for me...this photo shows a symbolic representation of compassion and wisdom from the Buddhist statue and more abstractly, the cross always emodied the suffering...yet the image you posted is so gorgeous that it also emanates great love!
Nancy
Hi Nancy, thanks for the comment. The cross is a Celtic cross which predates Christianity. It's true it has overtones of great suffering but originally I think it meant a joining of heaven and earth. I have been leaning towards Buddhism for quite a few years, more than towards Christianity but I thought the combination of the Buddha and the cross (pagan or not) had a lot of meaning. This cross is Irish and being that my ancestors were mostly Irish it has even added meaning for me.
Kate : )
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