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Immortal gestures : journeys in the unspoken

ISBN: 9781925849226
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scribe Publications (UBD)
Origin: AU
Release Date: April, 2025

Book Details

There is an old Buddhist adage, the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed to look to the celestial light. I am asking you to look at the finger. The finger is also the moon. A tilted head. A finger to the lips. A wave that could mean emphasis or dismissal. A raised palm of piety and fellowship. Our gestures do not simply point to our thoughts, they are our thoughts made flesh. They can be instinctive, intuitive, or calculated – or all three. They exist in the briefest moment and through history, in a gently turned wrist and across whole nations. Our gestures drag stories with them, whether they mean to or not. They are invitations to think about how our worlds are larger than they seem – how we are much larger than we seem.