'Bodhi' is both the Pāli and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English as 'enlightenment', where the word 'buddha' means 'one who has achieved bodhi' - a heightened state of understanding and awareness.
The Bodhi tree is far more than just a big old fig that once grew in Bodh Gaya, an the eastern state of Bihar in India. In religious iconography, the Bodhi tree is recognisable by its heart shaped leaves and thick trunk
The Bodhi Tree was reproduced as Sri Maha Bodhi in Sri Lanka. It is 2500 years old and is the oldest documented tree in human history. Many of the famous Bodhi trees around the world today have been reproduced from this original tree and its descendants are spread as far and wide as China, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia.
The Book and the Bodhi Tree is going to be a place where I can send out words, thoughts and stories into the universe every day. Instead of 365 works of fiction, I am going to plant seeds of thought where by the end of the next writing year I will have a trunk, branches, shoots, leaves and roots. It won't be a linear story, but will resemble a collection of thoughts, letters, ideas, stories and images.
This is a place where I can cultivate words and nurture what I throw at the void.
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