Mantra
Sanskrit
Derived from the word think.
Thought catching then. Repeating the sense of this floating through time. Maybe at least 9 times.
This one, time is more obviously not standing still. And perhaps the nine, more obviously a kind of personal logic, to hold something.
I am not a Buddhist. I am trying to remind myself.
about Just Going.
Maybe I am a NINE-ist. Clever,,, but really, I don't like to call myself anything. Labels divide us.
And a P.S.: and I love your cloth, Jude. It’s really beautiful. Thank you for all that you do and share.
🙃✌
Decades ago, when numerology was all “the go”, my sister and I wrote out our names, and added up the numbers of each letter, to find that we were both Nines! While we forgot about numerology, we were delighted with the Nine, and we too like the patch of Nine Squares. Recently I found a site called Bush Barrow in the UK, from the early British Bronze Age (circa 2000 BCE) and one of the grave goods found is a spectacular gold lozenge….in the centre of this piece is a Nine Square! The design is so simple but beautiful – please Google “Bush Barrow” (from part of the Stonehenge complex) to see this lovely piece from antiquity.
It has such a simple logic, it’s my only math. I will go look!
” just be”
Thats me right now. Day in, day out. Enough
these small cloths feel like pages from an ancient book of stories. transcendant. LOVE the undyeing.
I am many labels all combined. equals human being
Dear Jude,
I am the student that became ready for a teacher and here you are.
Your generous blog, The Jude School of Cloth Magic, has many roads to travel and although it seems very rich, deep, and convoluted I trust I am getting exactly what I need for the day. Who needs more than that ?
I too dislike labels for the same reason. And your comments on the words Art and Artist have been right on. “Just Going” perfectly describes my new cloth journey.
Many thanks,
Dhyana
The Jude School of Cloth Magic. I like that.
a Very BeautyFull Cloth the motion/stillness of it
i AM buddhist. My hair is in the Lama’s book from when i took Refuge all those years ago when i ran away to Oregon. and i say that in the same way as i say i am a woman, an old white one, i am a Goatherd, i am a great grandmother, i am a drawer, a clothmaker, a sister of a Garden and this morning, more than usual, a crazy person
since i can’t be seen as i live these things, i like to “label” myself so you get the idea of me
I dont see most of those things as labels. Maybe I will consider why over a glass of wine.
love is good enough…
Earth, water, fire, air… embracing.
Maybe more fire next time.
Ha.. I read that as Deviation.. my brain is dyslexic.. hugs to you and your man..
Deviation, that works…
Nine is so important to me……
And I love this piece! <3
nine has a nature to it…
Beautiful piece Jude 💙
I am enjoying these small cloths right now
Gorgeous piece
simple ideas blossom somehow, with ease.
Yes, don’t like labels at all, as well. But I had to laugh about that bit of reminding yourself your not Buddhist. Maybe Tao:)? 🙂
I am a nine- ist in many ways too…very little of the “ist” tho .
Very beautiful imagery of trust. .
I don’t really want to be anything. Just be. Tired of all of it really.