Brad's Indian Epics Blog

Rama, Sita, and Lakshamana, Wikicommons I started on Sita , because of the reading for this week and wanted to learn more. This lead to Bhumi  the earth Hindu goddess representing mother earth. This got me interesting in the incarnations and lead to me to avatar . This lead to the linked ideas of the gods and the ones around them and how they acted like teachers which took me to guru .

From Rama to Lotus Position Rock cut sculpture depicting Mahavira in Lotus position at Samanar Hills, Tamil Nadu, India, Wikicommons My journey started at Rama  as I was reading up on him for a potential project in the future. This lead to the interesting in Buddhism  and what role he played. The major parts of Buddhism is mediation will lead directly to Zen . Reading up on Zen proposed the different ways and steps to potentially reach the Zen state. One of the positions was the Lotus Position . Wanting to visualize this I clicked on the link and now it is the header image.