Your Heart's Buddha Land.

(Colored Pencil on scketch paper)

Well, I did this as a present for my dad's B-day. He is a rather interesting person, and I though that I wanted to give him some Buddhist phillosophy hidden behind a drawing.

So I did this, parting from various Buddhist principles as inner peace, unbreakable happiness, moments of enlightenment and the Buddha Land. These, so says Buddhism, are all within our own being and we may tap into it at any time.

I did this with various buddhist symbols: Bamboo for resistance (it is VERY hard to cut/brake a bamboo tree), The flowring peach tree to symbolize "Winter always turns into spring", a path to symbolize the path of our lives, and how we "climb" to this moment and the mountain to symvolize strenght and steadyness.

The person in the middle symbolizes us, living beings, as being one with everything around us; which would mean that we're one with what is represented here. We are buddhas without exception.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.