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| From the center of the plaza and the fountain,
a swan gives the welcome to El Santuario and proposes as spiritual
guide. Symbol that represents the birth of the sun after agony
of night, which leaves behind the winter and brings the spring,
the swan is rebirth, since in the oldest mythologies it drags
sun’s boat until dawn. The chiaroscuro, Castor y Pólux,
born from the union of a swan and Leda; one represents divinity,
the other humanity. Therefore, the swan at the plaza, welcome
and farewell El Santuario´s guests is the guide that remind
during their stay that is possible to join mortal body and transcendent
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A mirror reflects the soul of who watches
in it, since it gives back the energy that is radiated on its
surface. Constitutes the bridge between the physical world and
the spirit, or, it opens a door towards other world and universes,
as it were for Alicia. It represents the other half of one self.
The mirror does not return to the world the things as they are
but a game of opposites: one does not watch in the mirror itself,
but to an opposite and complementary being. When the mirror
is made of water the deepest vision of the things can be evoked… |
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| It is El Santuario´s heart, space
submitted to meditation, the personal and inner withdrawal and
the spiritual search. There all the energy of the mountain comes
together and it becomes present in who go in. Its stained glass
window was made by the painter, sculptor and Italian teacher
of light Narcissus Quagliata, author of the dome of the Santa
Maria degli Angeli basilica, at Rome for 2000 Jubilee. When
entering the Buda Space it is worthy to have in mind the four
noble truths on which the Buddhist doctrine is based: suffering
exists; it has an origin expressed through fear, uncertainty
and anguish. The origin of the suffering is the ignorance that
makes us to hope from objects, people and situations which they
cannot give us. To clarify the ignorance produces that suffering
to stop. There are methods and means to achieve it, they are
divided in three main trainings: ethics, concentration and development
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The water has an immense symbolism. In
its sermon of Assapuram, Buddha could consider mountain’s
lake, whose transparent waters allow observing the sand, the
shells, the snails and the fish, like the path that takes to
redemption. It is the universal matrix, the intrauterine state,
place where life emanates and of where all we come, to that
from time to time we dreamed to return. It is renewal and purification,
but also symbol of the overflowed emotions… |
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| The serpent is a meeting point with earth’s
depths, where Gaya’s energy is generated. In El Santuario,
Serpiente´s tunnel represents for the visitor the limit
of the material and the entrance to the spiritual world. Who
walks it will consider to transfer the threshold between futility
and transcending , will understand when leaving the mountain
why the serpent is symbol of the reincarnation: change of skin
like the water changes of body |
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Hexagrams of sacred Chinese book I Ching
are groups of six divided or not lines that symbolize archetypal
qualities and produce sixty and four possible exchanges, each
one with a different meaning. The sixty and four rooms of El
Santuario are identified with one of these hexagrams and are
arranged in fall, which suggests the guest to wander ascending
and descending by the transmutation that proposes the door to
itself that will open during its stay. |
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| It is possible to be left to the terrace
or to remain inside to experience a pleasant moment, while talking,
playing in some of the billiards table available, or simply
living the body to rest and accommodate in one of the armchairs,
in order to look towards the lake and to watch it without any
haste, perhaps while waiting somebody… |
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