Freshman Seminar Spring 2011: F6A

To be honest, comparing with other mandatory museum’s experience, this one was suprising. When i first came to NYC i did an english course and we went to the MoMA.It was really nice, but we were all the time looking at the watches to knew when we can leave. This is what it usually happend when something is mandatory. People have jobs, families, appointments and they not always enjoy the museums as they should.I thought it was going to be one of those experiences where you look for the first sculture you find to write about and complete the assigment. Instead, it wasn’t the best experience in my life, but it was okay. I really enjoy looking around. I don’t know if it was because de icyed Buddha exhibition or what, but it was crowded. I also liked the idea that there is a caffe inside. It was really nice.
While i was looking around in the floor that was assigned, i found lots of things that i liked. I had to find something to write about in this blog. First i found this elephant-ish, the “Dancing Ganapati”, that is the lord of beginnings and the lord of obstacles. It was amazing how the scultor made every detail, the head of an elephant, the body of a human, his 10 arms, every hand doing a different movement and it was dancing on a mouse.
Then i found this statue, the “Standing Arhat”. According to Buddhism, is a spiritual practitioner that comes to high levels of concentration and has gained a deep understanding about the true nature of existence. Which also has reached the state of being freed from both, the suffering and the cycle of rebirth and therefore, will not be born again. I can’t really explain why, but this statue gave me so much peace. After that, my round was done and i went home.
But before leaving i take a little souvenir, the water of the icying Buddha. So, when i was on the subway coming back home, i was happy because i have a little bottle with water and i have pace.