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Forth's Fifth Painting: The Wheel Of Life

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The outermost layer of the Wheel of life contains the twelve sections in order to demonstrate the evolvement of human as people are learning the doctrine of the Buddhism. First section of painting is the Blind woman, which represents the ignorance. Before, people are aware of the significance of the Buddhism, they tend to fall down again and again, however, as they physically learn themselves, they are reaching the hope. This section of painting illustrates that people are unable to have the enlightenment of reality because they are blind unless they do not have knowledge of the doctrine of the Buddhism. Because people are blind in the first step, they have to realize the reality through the physical learning process in order to approach their …show more content…

Forth painting explains how important socialization is. If people are not willing to work with others, and they rather live alone, then their lives will be considered as incomplete life. Hence, people have to know how to socialize with others for reaching their achievement in their lifetime. Fifth painting is the six organs by an empty house. As there is no window in the house, it represents that people need to see the truth of reality and obtain the impression through seeing, hearing, smell, tasting and touching. As much as people are exercise to see the world through the physical senses, they are able to find the direction for having enlightenment. Accordingly, the physical learning is very significant to realize the reality. Sixth one is the contact by children having sexual intercourse. As people find the person to love, they are able to have sensuous impression because the sexual intercourse contains all of senses in order to have love and children. This painting represents that as the couple embraces each other, they are going to fulfill their own sexual desire through make their two bodies into

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