{"id":70,"date":"2016-07-22T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/?p=70"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:30:05","slug":"the-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/the-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The time I started the pottery (1994) and for many years I was a practicing Buddhist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UDUMBARA name comes from Buddhism, plainly it means no sorrow. The name is a memory for the quest to live an authentic life&#8230; finding the way for true self is not easy, not for anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thich_Nhat_Hanh\">Thich Nhat Hanh<\/a> places the flower in the context of enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see a fully awakened person, a Buddha, is so rare that it is like seeing an udumbara flower. In the Tu Hieu Monastery in Hue, there is a scroll which says: \u201cThe udumbara flower, although fallen from the stem, is still fragrant.\u201d Just as the fragrance of the udumbara flower cannot be destroyed, our capacity for enlightenment is always present. The Buddha taught that everyone is a Buddha, everyone is an udumbara flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nomudnolotus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" data-id=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nomudnolotus-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nomudnolotus-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nomudnolotus-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nomudnolotus-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nomudnolotus.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thich Nhat Hanh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/We-have-a-tendency-to-think-in-terms-of-doing-and-not-in-terms-of-being.-We-think-that-when-were-not-doing-anything-were-wasting-our-time.-But-thats-not-true.-Our-time-is-first-of-all-for-us-t-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/We-have-a-tendency-to-think-in-terms-of-doing-and-not-in-terms-of-being.-We-think-that-when-were-not-doing-anything-were-wasting-our-time.-But-thats-not-true.-Our-time-is-first-of-all-for-us-t-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/We-have-a-tendency-to-think-in-terms-of-doing-and-not-in-terms-of-being.-We-think-that-when-were-not-doing-anything-were-wasting-our-time.-But-thats-not-true.-Our-time-is-first-of-all-for-us-t-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/We-have-a-tendency-to-think-in-terms-of-doing-and-not-in-terms-of-being.-We-think-that-when-were-not-doing-anything-were-wasting-our-time.-But-thats-not-true.-Our-time-is-first-of-all-for-us-t-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/We-have-a-tendency-to-think-in-terms-of-doing-and-not-in-terms-of-being.-We-think-that-when-were-not-doing-anything-were-wasting-our-time.-But-thats-not-true.-Our-time-is-first-of-all-for-us-t-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/We-have-a-tendency-to-think-in-terms-of-doing-and-not-in-terms-of-being.-We-think-that-when-were-not-doing-anything-were-wasting-our-time.-But-thats-not-true.-Our-time-is-first-of-all-for-us-t-2048x1154.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time I started the pottery (1994) and for many years I was a practicing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,96],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udumbara.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}