Often referred as the "Zen circle", ensō represents the Absolute, enlightenment, strength, elegance, the Universe, and the void.
It also symbolizes no-mind, the moment when the mind is free of thoughts and emotions and lets the body create.
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“A candle is made to become entirely flame.In that annihilating momentit has no shadow.
It is nothing but a tongue of firedescribing a refuge...”
- Rumi
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“Center of all centers, core of all cores,almond self-enclosed and growing sweet -all this universe, to the furthest starsand beyond them is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you;your vast shell reaches into endless space;and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,a billion stars go spinning through the night,blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence thatwill be, when all stars are dead.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems
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