Pencil & Airbrush ⋅ 36 x 54 cm
Namaste/Illustration ⋅ 2020
Psalms II
Honor the springtide life ever adorning,
That all things has made!
Things smallest have some resurrectional morning,
The forms alone fade.
Life begets life,
Potencies higher surprise.
Kind begets kind,
Heedless of time as it flies.
Worlds pass away and arise.
Nothing so small but there’s something still smaller,
No one can see.
Nothing so great but there’s something still greater
Beyond it can be.
Worms in the earth—
Mountains to make they essay.
Dust without worth,
Sands with which sea-billows play,—
Founders of kingdoms were they.
Infinite all, where the smallest and greatest
Oneness unfold.
No one has seen what was first,—and the latest
None shall behold.
Laws underlie,
Order the all they maintain.
Need and supply
Bring one another; our bane
Boots to the general gain.
Eternity’s offspring and germ are we all now.
Thoughts have their true
Roots in our race’s first morning; they fall now,
Query and clue,
Freighted with seed
Into eternity’s soil;
Joy be your meed,
That your brief life’s fleeting toil
Fruit for eternity bears.
Join in the joy of all life, every being,
Brief bloom of its spring!
Honor th’ eternal, our human lot freeing
From fetters that cling!
Adding your mite,
With the eternal unite!
Though you decay,
Breathe as a moment you may,
Air of eternity’s day!
For the advancement of women ⋅ སེམས
»The woman is the mother of mankind. She is charged with protecting life and instilling the spirit of peace in a war-torn world, for that nectar she thirsts for. I am committed to giving women full participation in the further development of society by giving them appropriate training and access to positions of responsibility. In fact, I am convinced that they have the natural ability to humanize the world again and to increase individual and collective responsibility within it with an altruistic attitude.
I advocate equal rights for men and women and oppose the general subordination of women. I reject any form of patriarchy and the humiliating domination and exploitation of women. In the relationships between man and woman, I strive to introduce a balance between male and female that exists between us and also within each one of us. I cultivate mutual trust that is based on respect and careful listening to one another, as well as mutual tolerance. I acknowledge that women are particularly sensitive by nature and should have access in much greater numbers to positions of responsibility for the good of the community.«
Dalai Lama, Nouvelle Réalité, Eleven Life Commitments, 2016
Stril-Rever, Rinpoche, Thurman and Itzkin
(15. September 2015, Oxford)