Is that really what it says? DHARMA? At first it looked something like "CHATHA"... Well if everything in the Hatch it circa 1970s-80s, it'd be the right time for a company/organization to name itself Dharma.
Yep, on the ones I have seen it does say Dharma and if you look it up the definitions fit into the plot well.
1. Hinduism & Buddhism.
A. The principle or law that orders the universe. B. Individual conduct in conformity with this principle. C. The essential function or nature of a thing.
2. Hinduism.
A. Individual obligation with respect to caste, social custom, civil law, and sacred law.
3. Buddhism. A. The body of teachings expounded by the Buddha. B. Knowledge of or duty to undertake conduct set forth by the Buddha as a way to enlightenment. 3. One of the basic, minute elements from which all things are made
Woah - hang on - I love that you're as detail-oriented as I am, but honestly, these are just random pics off a random site that has nothing to do with Lost. I can accept the idea of numbers being connected, but the pic at the bottom is just the one that was attached to the quote. It's probably already a huge stretch to connect buddhism without me proclaiming that I've found the secret missing 'bear' symbol!
Wow - good eye - I completely overlooked how much that looks like a yin-yang there in the center of the logo! And look! The blocks that radiate from the center have exactly the same divisions!! Any idea what the characters translate into?
I Ching is the "Book of Changes" an ancient Chinese text based around a set of hexagrams (6 horizontal lines stacked vertically). Each line is either a solid line, representing yang or a broken line, representing yin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
The middle of the logo looks more like a swan to me. Isn't the swan used as some kind of symbol in Korea? My first impression of the whole thing was that it was Korean.
Very interesting stuff. According to the i ching wikipidia, the 8 symbols (trigrams) represent heaven, earth, fire, water, thunder, wind, mountain, and swamp. Jin and Sun might recognize the symbols as 4 of them and the ying/yang appear on the S. Korean flag.
Okay - so just a fast disclaimer - None of what we're throwing around here is proabably connected.
That being said, it is absolutely uncanny how many connections there are between things that up until now, seemed to be only random details linked only by the fact that they appeared on the same episode of a TV show we all happen to watch. It makes you start to question the sense of being sensible in your conclusions.
It is a Cobra embedded within the Dharma logo which splits Ying and Yang (symbolic of harmony separated by evil)
In Yi Jing, Pa Kua is tells us there are eight phenomena among us, suspending in the Universe. What is Pa Kua? In the direct translation, Pa means eight (8) and Kua means suspending or hanging. Instead calling them the eight phenomena, they were referred as Pa Kua.
I think the symbol looks more like a swan, but it's all in the eye of the beholder it could be a cobra or snake also. More swan like because botom left is more like body of swan, cobras dont get thicker in the bottom. But they dont expecty you to relly get a great look at it because they show it quickly.
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