The positive and the negative in symbolics
I used to have the last name Hari which does not mean anything but from which the "Ha" has a positive sound, like the looks of the animal in the flag of Sri lanka, and the "ri" a negative sound, like the sword and possibly the artificiality of the squares (when compared with the animal) in the flag of Sri Lanka. Here is how I interpreted my name, maybe it can serve as a comparison for how to interprete the flag of Sri Lanka in an as constructive way as possible:
Flow toward Ha and away from ri.
Ha means happiness and things positive for happy life:
health, naturality, balance, honesty, fairness, a non-broken whole, harmony, a non-broken natural healthy social group, positive feelings, feelings and atmospheres, common sense and objectivity, the level of experience in a positive sense, the truth, beauty, the ideal, straightforward, fruitful, close to life, good natural healthy motivation, good understanding with a holistic view, friendship, love, natural life, freedom of individuals, justice, carrying responsibility in practise, success, a secure future, a good picture of the world, making sense really,…
Cultivate Ha and avoid ri, remove ri.
Ri means to break or broken: evil, irresponsibility, unjustice, lies, misleading, unnaturalities, too much artificialities, fractures in naturality, causing suffering (when looked from the holistic point of view – justice is OK even though it causes suffering), poor fortune, great faults, faults, maliciousness, evil deeds, hell, irresponsibility ruling, non-human ways, torture, technicality at the cost of naturality,…
The buddhists might say that one should cultivate life and remove the form without content and remove those things that harm life. That's what the sword is needed for: it affects in different degrees in different things, in different cases – not always so sword like, sometimes just purity, pure life, the sound of happiness and meaningfulness. Refusing to be rotten, earning for life but watching things always from the holistic perspective: then life equals good moral and it is noit right to squeeze the buddhist animal to a too small space since that wouldn't give enough room for all to live in: the good must flourish and the evil perish, even by the force of the sword. Buth the sword is thin, it will cut precisely, so use it with care, respecting life and the truth because if the truth isn't respected, you will cut wrongly. And if things are really well, the sword will defend tradition and not do anything else: defend happiness, health and naturality.
Moral means cultivating good and resisting evil: Ha and ri, or the healthy happy animal with a sword for defence. In that sense thoise symbols represent life. But I still would prefer the pure health without the negative things mentionad since negative things can be used also wrongly: without a holistic view of the world or erraneously. Nowadays I have the last name Tervola meaning Health – it is my grandmother's maiden name, like the healthy happy natural buddhist animal alone is the original form of the animal in the flag of Sri lanka, I guess.
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