Why Do You Not Swallow Mouthwash

Satvat - Know yourself - acrylic on canvas. 40x60, 2011

Know yourself was the motto engraved above the entrance of the Oracle of Delphi, is also the message of every Buddha, every teacher of truth. But if you investigate thoroughly, there's actually a personality that is finally recognized: it turns out not to be somebody, but to be none. Not in the sense that there is no presence, on the contrary there is a presence that unspeakably vast and very existence. This free, because freed from the limitations, the projections of the ego and suffering.

In this painting I put the Buddha on a carpet woven by the currents of change, in a statue of meditation. The face, in which we place the usual definition of the ego is absent, but the aura is expansive energy, from which to observe the eyes of Buddha that pervades all existence. That look on the whole is part of the whole, it is our very eyes, the clearest and most profound, in which everything is included.