Awake

It was on a Saturday (31st Jan 2015), last Saturday of January, I have started sketching Budhha around 3:40 pm. I have taken 4 hours to complete this painting in 18’X24’ size canvas with Acrylic colors. Prussian Blue, Titanium White and Black are the only colors used.  This is the third painting done in 2015. I thought of naming this work as “Awake” as name Budhha means the awakened one or the enlightened one.

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskritsamyaksaṃbuddha) of our age. Gautama taught Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.

According to the early Buddhist texts, after realizing that meditative dhyana was the right path to awakening, but that extreme asceticism didn't work, Gautama discovered what Buddhists call the Middle Way a path of moderation away from the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification, or the Noble Eightfold Path, as was identified and described by the Buddha in his first discourse, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. Courtesy Wikipedia