The Personification of Feminine Kindness and Charity:

Befitting of a Warrior and a Method of Walking Lightly

The Mārga? To journey forsaking conflict and violence.

The foundation? Remarkable intellect, knowledge, judgement, discernment and wisdom.

This 'Way' – then – consider, engage and foster.

 

 

First published in the online version of Revue {R}évolution in August 2022, this work began as an exercise in creative translation with

a difference – initially, it was intended to represent an imagined transmission of an Epigram by Martial (a Roman author that was most

prolific through the second half of the 1st Century CE) to a Han Dynasty Court of the 1st or 2nd Century CE. The Epigram chose is

known as I:109. Having settled the Chinese text, a creative translation into English followed.

 

The text in Chinese and English is exhibited by Revue {R}évolution with an audio file (comprising a reading of the English text) and

some short thoughts on 'the future of poetry' (presented – appropriately – as a poem).

 

Click on the hyperlink embedded in the following text to see the material in situ at Revue {R}évolution where you might even like to

listen to the reading by the author (and even spot the bonus poem concerning 'the future of poetry').

 

The image shown below is a depiction of 觀音 (Guānyīn ['the appearance of news or tidings']) or 觀世音 (Guānshìyīn ['observing the

sound of the world']) – a metamorphization of Avalokiteśvara (whose name could be read as something like "This Loki is now Lord",

or "From consciousness, spirit, senses, feeling, soul and courage, 'little you' is capable of excellence, beauty, choice, wishes, blessing

and gifts"). By the by, in Buddhist tradition, the companion of Avalokiteśvara is Ārya Tārā ("Noble Star") or 多羅菩薩 (Duōluó Púsà

["able and efficient kind-hearted person"]). Interestingly, too, in ancient texts referring to the philosopher Apion, he is referred to as

cymbalum mundi ('the ringing of the world').

 

 

 

 

This literary work will also be presented in Treasures from the Void (2023).

 

 

 

 

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   Treasures from the Void

 

                                    (2023)

 

Treasures from the Void presents a range of

fiction, nonfiction and poetic works to delight

and uplift.

 

For this publication from Spirit of the Ages,

each work is accompanied by a specially

selected image from the author's own

collection. Illustrations are shown from

artists of various periods, including those

associated with the Golden Age of Illustration

and Medieval, Renaissance and fin de siècle

movements.

 

      

 

 

 

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