It's called "Desert Flowers,"
very rare. You have to go to the desert to see them. And not all deserts
have this kind of flower. Different deserts have different flowers.
Most deserts have one kind of flower only; it's a bluish kind of flower.
Only one place has these rusty red flowers; they're beautiful. They
look like the real ones we have at home.
These flowers look very dry
but they're not. Just their color looks dry, but they're not dry.
The plants are still very green inside; when you break them, they're
still green. That's the way some desert flowers are. All flowers,
when they're in different conditions, have different colors and different
forms.
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"Desert
Flowers," a pastel painting by Supreme Master Ching Hai
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We are similar. All people in
different situations and different circumstances appear different,
from the outside and sometimes from the inside. I don't mean the inside
soul or the original, eternal person. I mean the character of the
person: the personalities and habits he or she acquires through contact
with the environment or his/her background. But they are still beautiful,
just like desert flowers.
So whenever I paint, I don't
just paint an impression of the objects or the scenery; there is some
meaning behind it. So desert flowers are like things in some of those
different environments, like people who look strange, look a little
bit peculiar, don't look like us or just maybe look like me. These
are similar to desert flowers.
Desert Flowers