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April 04, 2008
Good Golly, Miss Molly!
We bought the boat.
Hull #108 will be launched in early June in Huntington, New York!
We decided to name her "Prana", but then I started to research the number 108. Here is what I learned:
108 is sacred within Hinduism, Buddhism and connected yoga and dharma based practices.
Hindu deities have 108 names. Recital of these names, often accompanied by counting of 108-beaded mala (prayer beads), is considered sacred and often done during religious ceremonies. The recital is called namajapa.
108 is the number of sins in Tibetan Buddhism.
In Japan, at the end of the year, a bell is chimed 108 times to finish the old year and welcome the new one. Each ring represents one of 108 earthly temptations a person must overcome to achieve nirvana.
Zen priests wear juzu (a ring of prayer beads) around their wrists, which consists of 108 beads.
Many Buddhist temples have 108 steps.
The distance from the Sun to the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Sun.
The average distance of the Moon from the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Moon.
In Homer's Odyssey, there are 108 suitors coveting Penelope, wife of Odysseus.
108 is the automic number of HASSIUM
There are 54 letters in the Sanskrit alphabet. Each has masculine and feminine, shiva and shakti. 54 times 2 is 108.
The chakras are the intersections of energy lines, and there are said to be a total of 108 energy lines converging to form the heart chakra. One of them, sushumna leads to the crown chakra, and is said to be the path to Self-realization.
Some say there are 108 feelings, with 36 related to the past, 36 related to the present, and 36 related to the future.
1 stands for God or higher Truth, 0 stands for emptiness or completeness in spiritual practice, and 8 stands for infinity or eternity.
The number 108 is used in Islam to refer to God.
If one is able to be so calm in meditation as to have only 108 breaths in a day, enlightenment will come.
Cool...
Posted by dave at April 4, 2008 01:36 PM