Freshman Seminar Spring 2011: F6A

  When I first stepped into the Rubin Museum, I felt a little bit weird. I didn’t expect it a Buddhism museum; I didn’t expect that a Buddhism museum with a café where people drink; and I didn’t expect that people drink in an environment with that kind of special smell. The feeling was different, however, when I saw the Buddha made of ice. It was really an amazing art work. Looking at it, I felt like the melting process of the ice Buddha is like the process of our own lives. At first, it’s perfectly built and it is brand new as a new born baby. And then it starts melting, just like a baby starts his adventure of the world. The melt water of the ice is like our memory, which will evaporate and disappear eventually. I took a small bottle of the melt water before I left. And it reminded me that it will last if we take a good care of the memory.  And finally, the ice will disappear as our lives will lose at the end. Nothing will leave behind except for the feeling it brings to people.