...ultimate reality that is represented by the pagoda found in the middle of a lake where a Buddhist monk lives. The monk’s home can also be seen as a ... ... older and older, until one day he takes his boat out to the middle of the lake and there ends his earthly existence. His body no longer serves him,... ...limbs with great difficulty to the top of the mountain that looms over the lake. When he gets to the top he bends in prayer while the sun comes up ... ...m up or stop them as he pleases. He tied the ox-skin onto the ship with a silver, sparkling chain, so no winds could possibly escape; only the Zep... ...mpanions started speaking among themselves, and said I was taking gold and silver home with me, gifts from magnanimous Aeolus, son of Hippotes. And... ...hip from Aeolus; come then, let’s look at what’s in it, how much gold and silver the ox-skin contains”. 147 This is what they said and the compan... ...nd by his inner wisdom, he wants to create a relationship in which the two partners can form one soul that lives in concordance, without one having ... ...complicity with the mother, it destroys the foundations of the goal of two partners to create a couple. It is especially damaging when the two have ...