So the word "avatar" has had quite the journey; from being a very ancient word to portray God and God's many incarnations and energies, to the biggest film in world history. However when I began getting interested in the movie I was misdirected to a Nick-toons (Nickelodeon cartoon channel) series called Avatar: The last Airbender. For the longest time I thought James Cameron directed a movie based on the Avatar: The last Airbender. Turns out I was wrong because the movie was totally different, yet I, personally, enjoyed the storyline. Then M. Night Shyamalan is now directing his OWN version of Avatar: The last Airbender. ~Le Sigh~
The cartoon has been most enjoyable for it is truly creative and cute, and has a good message about love, and friendship, however like everything these days there is a lot of violence. I was thinking about the many small lessons the cartoon teaches, and it really does combine a lot of eastern teachings, and my biggest question was, why is it called avatar?
Avatar is a depiction of one's true self. In Avatar the movie, the avatars were the humans' alien selves. In Avatar the last Airbender, Aang the Avatar was the incarnation of all the Avatars before him. Basically he was the one soul but who had lived as many others before him, and now he is a boy. The cartoon depicted it as the little boy having many souls, or so it seemed. I was meditating at a lecture by Sri Sri Ravishankar (the founder of the Art of Living Foundation) and I was deep in meditating when I realized that my body was nothing but the Avatar of my higher self/spirit/soul. Slowly as my body breathed I disengaged from it. It was just my body. It was a strange experience and indescribable, but it kind of changed me. I look forward to doing more meditation, I need to find a quiet place however.
So my definition for Avatar will not be defined by any popular culture thing, however it will remind me of Aang, and remind me that we are all just depictions and embodiments of our higherselves.
Now let us admire the beautiful world around us and realize that it depicts something of a higherself in its own ways, and some people call that heaven.
The cartoon has been most enjoyable for it is truly creative and cute, and has a good message about love, and friendship, however like everything these days there is a lot of violence. I was thinking about the many small lessons the cartoon teaches, and it really does combine a lot of eastern teachings, and my biggest question was, why is it called avatar?
Avatar is a depiction of one's true self. In Avatar the movie, the avatars were the humans' alien selves. In Avatar the last Airbender, Aang the Avatar was the incarnation of all the Avatars before him. Basically he was the one soul but who had lived as many others before him, and now he is a boy. The cartoon depicted it as the little boy having many souls, or so it seemed. I was meditating at a lecture by Sri Sri Ravishankar (the founder of the Art of Living Foundation) and I was deep in meditating when I realized that my body was nothing but the Avatar of my higher self/spirit/soul. Slowly as my body breathed I disengaged from it. It was just my body. It was a strange experience and indescribable, but it kind of changed me. I look forward to doing more meditation, I need to find a quiet place however.
So my definition for Avatar will not be defined by any popular culture thing, however it will remind me of Aang, and remind me that we are all just depictions and embodiments of our higherselves.
Now let us admire the beautiful world around us and realize that it depicts something of a higherself in its own ways, and some people call that heaven.
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