TRIBAL SPIRAL TATTOO SKIN

How right he was!Īnother friend, Kimi, a manga freak, told me that it was a naruto, a symbol used in manga under the same name.ģ) My symbol is also of Celtic heritage and this one is very important for me, sentimentally speaking. ‘But isn’t creativity a way to get out of depression?– he replied wisely. Giovanni, a friend of mine told me, that’s the symbol of creativity! to what I answered ‘well, I did not know that! I would relate it more to a depressive state of mind that goes in circles but in the end if one fights for it and wants it badly, gets out of it.’ People tell me what it reminds them of and that way I can see the different point of views around the same symbol. Meditating in the Philippines, near Tagaytay.Ģ) What I like the most about my tattoo is the multiple interpretations that it has. Moderation, on the other hand, means to put into practice wisdom and mind cultivation without the need of restraining ourselves. Extremes take us to lose contact with reality and to create more desire and selfish actions. This doesn’t mean one needs to be immune or insensitive to what happens but that extremes are never convenient. Buddha established a way to accept the constant change on what’s around us and that’s called the Middle Path (in Sanscrit: madhyamā-pratipad) that’s in a nutshell the path of moderation. I got more knowledge on this issue by the hand of Buddhism. It’s something I already knew but I never practiced. It’s simple and at the same time logic but the hardest part is to put it into practice. Therefore, trying to be in another place or other circumstances is escaping from the reality that the now provides you. There’ll always be a now in which we live while the tomorrow and the past are kept in an unachievable limbo of happiness. And the present is the only thing we have. We insist on wanting to be somewhere else, in another moment that we forget the magic of the present. To deny change is to refuse to accept the natural life cycle, to go against nature. Nothing is permanent, everything changes following a continuous cycle. Nothing is constant, everything that exists in this world is subject to changes. If we transfer it into a non-religious level, isn’t it still a universal law? Isn’t it true that everything that’s around us is destined to change? Impermanence and Buddhism in my tattooġ) Impermanence: according to Buddhism, impermanence is a universal law. – It’s a popular symbol: it has several interpretations just how the world view is, simple in its own complexity. No extras, no complications, just how it is. Simple things end up being the logic and prudent option. – It’s simple: if there’s anything that I’ve certainly learnt from my adventures on the Asian continent is that simplicity tends to always work. Should I have it smaller, bigger, simpler? I don’t know! Why did I choose the spiral for my tattoo? As soon as the months passed by and countries, languages and customs changed, I became aware of the fact that I’d end up having it.

It would be the perfect way to put an end to this experience, to close the cycle. That’s when I connected dots and I said to myself that I had to go there at the end of my trip. Some days after, while talking to one of my colleagues about where to go next in the Philippines I was told about a hidden place in the mountains where an old lady from a tribe had been making tattoos for all her life.

TRIBAL SPIRAL TATTOO SKIN

Maybe it was high time that I had it on my skin forever as a tattoo.ĭrawing spirals would give me a sense of tranquility and confidence while boosting my creativity. It was then that I realised that I had been using that symbol very often along the last years. Spirals to separate ideas, to remark some points and to sum ideas up. Back in September of 2013 while taking some notes in one of the Buddhist classes in the Philippines I caught myself drawing spirals, one after the other.

Tribal spiral tattoo