Frithjof Schuon Archive

Japanese golden screens and kakemonos —Some of the best things that artists have given us.The gloomy oil-paintings that fill museums —Who would want to have them in his home?Do not say, “this is not important”. Interior spacesHave an effect on us, they shape our...

Yab-Yum: each holds the other in close embrace,Divine Power and divine Spirit; this means:Upâya is masculine, the Path;Prajnâ is feminine, the spirit of Wisdom.But there is another way to interpret it:Truth is masculine; striving for illuminationIs feminine — O cup,...

First without gender, then perceived as woman,Thus Avalokitèshwara is veneratedIn the Mahâyâna — a manifestationOf Goodness that averts from us the bad.Kwan-Yin: seated on a heavenly lotus,Sunk deep in her own center;Her merciful breasts and her golden bodyShine, a...

Râdhâ in the sacred grove. And Krishna came;His face was shining like the blush of dawn.He played a song upon his magic flute —A longing song, that robbed her of her senses.They became one in their sacred play of love —The world was extinguished. Only Ânanda...