sababa Buddha
Amy recently gave me a brief lesson in Hebrew. I was never really been exposed to very much Hebrew culture until later in life through friends, and I’m always fascinated with the detailed traditions and elements of that culture. I’m fairly certain even in the little bit of the Hebrew alphabetI have in this sketch, I’ve misused what I learned, because there’s this thing about dots that I just don’t get, and I’m not really clear on the differences in some of the characters. The characters you see there represent, from right to left, the Hebrew characters of Samekh, Bet, Bet, He, but I think it’s supposed to be Het.
At any rate, the characters together render the word and idea of sababa, which according to Amy and other sources is more than just a word, but rather a way of life. It’s also been described as cool, chill, going well, on the right path and other positive states. It’s a deep concept, and I like it a lot. In my mind, I thought of it as a very zen state, which led me to the thought of a buddha (not necessarily the Buddha) potentially being (in a state of) sababa. So, referencing Amy’s notes on sababa, I found and placed the Hebrew characters in Inkscape. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it happened without any changes to the configuration. I found a great buddha image in morguefile which I cropped, brought into Inkscape, bitmap traced a few times, and underpainted with the watercolor effect using the calligraphy tool.
Thanks to Amy for the inspiration, and the lesson! Above all, I recognize that I’m doing a religious cultural mashup here, and in that, it might be taken as offensive. There is absolutely no intent to do that, but rather to possibly have some cross understanding of a common state of being in many religious viewpoints.
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i don’t get how one can clash two completely different religions 2gether.
Well, for one thing, they are not completely different. There’s lots of similarities amongst all religions, in fact, but this is really just about the idea of the cool of zen and the cool of sababa. I was not saying that Buddhism and Judaism were one and the same, however.