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My First Tattoo: The Experience & Meaning…

hectormhernandez — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:34:01 +0000

This post is about my first tattoo and the experience I underwent through. Plus what does the tattoo means – many people have asked me what it means.

My experience wasn’t all that painful – as a matter of fact, it was pleasurable. I think that I’ve developed my abilities to channel the pain as something pleasurable due to how many times I was sewed as a kid. I also have this thought on my mind that I read years ago and I retained it for the moments that I need it: “Pain is the weakness leaving the body”. Another fact that didn’t stress or a nervous breakdown was the tattoo artist I went to. He’s very clean, and he let me know of everything he was doing and why.

“Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it….Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.” – Michelle Delio

Now I want to talk about the significance of the tattoo part by part.

First thing that people ask me is what does the Japanese letters around the circle means, but more on that later. I am a fighter and I practice martial arts since I was 5. Those words in Japanese are the Bushido – the life code of the samurais. Traduced it means “the way of the warrior”; being a fighter is not simply a sport, for me it is a way of life that I have practiced for a long time and I implement constantly in my daily life. The letters are the 7 virtues of Bushido: Rectitude, Courage, Benevolence, Respect, Honesty, Honor and Loyalty.

Moving on to the circle with the three identical symbols: it isn’t 3 sixes, or a sharingan, or Sasuke’s curse. This symbol is ubiquitous on Buddhist and Shinto temples all over Japan. Its name is tomoe, meaning “turning” or “circular”, referring to the motion of the earth. The tomoe is related to the yin yang symbol and has a similar meaning, representing the play of forces in the cosmos. Visually, the tomoe is made up of interlocked flames (or magatama) resembling tadpoles.

The Tattoo in my back is one of the most common tomoe emblems and haves three flames (triple, or ‘mitsudomoe’), but one, two, or four are not uncommon. A mitsudomoe reflects the threefold division of Shinto cosmology, and it’s said to represent the earth, the heavens, and humankind. It is often associated with the Shinto war deity Hachiman.

To wrap it up, the circles with the dot on the center of the tomoes. That symbol is utilized in many ways around the world, many of them in a religious sense. Called a “circumpunct”, it represents the sun and a Sun God (called Ra in Egypt), gold (as in alchemy), a (unbiblical) archangel (Kabbalah), emotional restraint, and the creative spark of divine consciousness within people linking everyone to the creative mind of a universal “god” thus making each persona “co-creator” (astrology). In the complex symbolic system of Hinduism and Buddhism, the bindu (dot) represents the male force. Together, the circle and the bindu symbolize the spiritual merging of male and female forces.

I utilized with the significance of the three. The first one is called An Ordi, the symbol of the Divine Order, representing chaos, light, life, freedom, good, happiness, infinity, and existence. The second is The Huichol Indian’s Eye of God. The third circle’s meaning is more symbolic and deep to me. It symbolizes emotional restraint: tending to keep one’s thoughts and emotions to oneself: controlled, noncommittal, reserved, self-controlled & will power.

“When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.” – Michelle Delio

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Creation of Time and Space

hectormhernandez — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:38:14 +0000

During these weeks I’ve been through a lot and in these days someone asked me how I felt, I answered “I feel like if my life were to go through the big bang”. Curiously, while reading one of my favorite blogs, Gizmodo, I found a interesting video of the big bang theory but let astrophysicist Janna Levin explain you what the Big Bang was.

Ten Dimensions as said in Gizmodo this second video is mindblowing

[Gizmodo.com]

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My First Photos After The Makeover

hectormhernandez — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:46:38 +0000

Here I’m going to present the first photos that I take after my makeover last week. The photos were taken on August 10 by Juan Lee Concepcion from Nvdia Photography. For those who don’t knew it, I change my look completely and still not finished. I’m now in an intense routine of exercise because I want to rip my body And like I comment in my about me I want fight in MMA, hope next year I’m going to be ready for this. If you want to know why I change my look you can read my previous post that talks about the changes that are happening at this moment in my life. But this post is just to introduce my new look and to officially launch my new website after the 2.0 update I made in which I added several things including a blog, a more personalized about me and more. If you have any suggestions or questions contact me. The photos will be available in my other profiles tomorrow, for the moment this is a preview of my new look.

I know my English writing skills are not this good but that’s why I have this website in English, I want to perfect my skills. I hope you understand everything I say. Any suggestions or questions contact me or leave a comment.

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The Ugly Truth

hectormhernandez — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:30:28 +0000

This morning I thought in make a small review about District 9 I saw this film yesterday with 2 of my best friends, but I’m now arriving from the theater and I think is best to write about the movie I saw today The Ugly Truth a romantic comedy film starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. When I began to watch the movie I saw that many points out in fact, are true for example, Mike (Gerard Butler) tells us that the man puts its attention first in the physique that in the emotional qualities, is actually true but I also I think that in women the same happens. I think this happens to the whole world in most cases is the physique what got your attention first that the emotional part. Somewhere in the film Mike said that he is like it is because he have allots of fail relationships, but I think you must see the fail relationships as something to learn from it, should not be a reason for be player. If I things like that and I count all my fail relationships I will be a super player, now I’m in a relationships that I’m in and out of it because of their parents we are unstable. This is not a reason for me to be a player at least I see that like I need to follow what I love. My advice you should pursue what you really wants and loves not matter what, until your last breath. As I said in one of my previous post “you can’t fail, if you don’t give up – The Last Kiss“. The Ugly truth is a good movie makes you laugh, presents issues that are real and among other thing. You can learn from it, one of the things that teaches you is that be your yourself not something that really you are not. I give the film a 10/10 and district 9 I give her a 10/10 is a good alien movie totally different from what you normally see. But I decided to write about The Ugly Truth because I feel more identified with the film at least in these difficult times of my life.

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Welcome

hectormhernandez — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:33:31 +0000

Hello, I’m Hector M. Hernandez or Dragon as some people know me is my nickname, I am a 21 year old guy from a little island in the middle of the Caribbean called Puerto Rico. I’m an athlete, designer, geek or sexy geek as somebody said to me once, young entrepreneur, amateur photographer, you know I try to become a versatile person. If you like to know more about my self and the website you can go to my about page, over there are Additional information about me and the website

My website is my place out side the world of social networks. I am going to use this site as a way to practice web design, graphic arts, English, make contacts & for gain better control of what I want you to see. I’m going to be more active here than in other places. If you wonder what I’m going to talk about in my blog. The reality is when I added a blog to my website I did not think of writing about a particular topic. But to share my personal experiences and my knowledge with the people that come and read my blog. I am going to talk about topics such as productivity, technology, business, money, philosophy, health, personal stuff, I going to make reviews among other things. If you have any questions or suggestions contact me or tweet me on Twitter.

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