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Ianua

The etymology of the Latin word Ianua (door) would refer to the god Ianus,

usually depicted with two faces (the so-called Giano Bifronte), since the god can look at the

future and the past but also because, being the god of the door, he can look both inside and

outside. Already the ancients put the name of the god in relation to the movement:

Macrobius and Cicero made it derives from the verb ire (to go), because according to

Macrobius the world always moves in a circle and returns from itself to itself. Modern

scholars have confirmed this relationship by establishing a derivation from the term

ianua, (door), but it is with Georges Dumézil that the meaning is specified: the name

Ianus derives from the Indo-European root * ei-, expanded in * y-aa- with the meaning of

passage that, through a form * yaa-tu, has also produced the Irish ath, (ford).

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1) Absent Space

We wrongly consider that things (including the human self) possess their own inherent

nature. The subtle and profound emptiness realized on the bodhisattva path is an ultimate

truth. This ultimate truth is a negative phenomenon -- the mere absence of a certain type of

self (i.e., a certain kind of existence) in phenomena. In Buddhism, ultimate truth is an

absence, not a presence.

2) Dinamic Memory Sequences

A memory dinamic sequence consists of music, images and moments of our past and future

lives. A new life can make our memories fade but this does not mean they should be

forgotten.

3) Angya

Angya is a term used in Zen Buddhism in reference to the traditional pilgrimage a monk or

nun makes from monastery to monastery, literally translated as "to go on foot." The term

also applies to the modern practice in Japan of an unsui (novice monk) journeying to seek

admittance into a monastery for the first time.

4) Waves and Wind

There are waves and there is wind, there are visible and invisible forces. Everyone has these

same elements in his life, the visible and the invisible, karma and free will.

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Dance in the cover: Amina

5) Dry Leaves

Music composed for this haiku written by a member of Africa Haiku Network Jamil

Dan’bala Umar

"Harmattan winds

clattering dry leaves

count their days"