Question : meaning of the lotus flower?
- asked by jncmoses
All Answers:
Answer #1
In India, the Lotus represents birth. Also long life, health, honor and good
luck. In China, the lotus was honored as the plant of summer. One of the eight
immortals holds a lotus, the "flower of open-heartedness" or a lotus-pod wand.
It was an emblem of purity, fruitfulness (because of its many seeds) and
creative power.In Egypt, it was associated with the sun because it opens in the
morning and closes at night. Horus, the sun-god was often depicted sitting on a
lotus (like Buddha and Brahma). The lotus was also the flower of resurrection,
used in funeral rites and depicted on tombs. Mourners would pray that the
deceased would have the chance to bloom again, "like a water lily reopening."
- answered by quasipuca
Answer #2
Lots of things.Lotus flowers in the language of flowers means estrangement. In
India, the Lotus also represents birth. Vishnu puts forth from his body a single
giant navel on which Brahma, the lotus-born Creator is seated. This lotus has
1,000 golden petals from which mountains rise and waters flow.In Chinese
Buddhism, the lotus became a symbol of purity. "Bathing in the clear water of
the spiritual pond, the lotus' roots dig deep into the soil." It represented
being able to distance oneself from vulgarity. But Mahayana Buddhism takes this
symbolism a step further: "This flower doesn't grow in the highlands, but rather
it blooms in the vile swamps." In other words, purity is no different than
pollution—the spirit can bloom in any circumstance.The lotus flower, which
blossoms above the water, represents the transcendence of emptiness and
existence, and represents the Absolute Principle of the Middle Way. Middle Way
means neither falling into emptiness nor going to the extreme of existence.
Emptiness and existence are the two extremes;. To be unattached to either of the
two extremes is the Absolute Principle of the Middle Way.Lotus flower tattoos
are also popular for people who have gone through a hard time and are now coming
out of it. Like the flower they have been at the bottom in the muddy, yucky
dirty bottom of the pond but have risen above this to display an object of
beauty or al ife of beauty as the case might be. Thus a lotus flower tattoo or
blossom can also represent a hard time in life that has been overcome.
- answered by redunicorn@sbcglobal.net
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