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I found an icon of a feng shui mirror on one of the computers at school during a graphics class. It looked exactly like the Dharma symbol! I saved it to my iPod immediatly and brought it home. My sister agreed that it looked almost exactly like the Dharma symbol, so we did an image search and discovered that there are a lot that look like that. Also, Take Me Out pointed out that the South Korean Flag also contains some of the same elements.

I looked it up, and the concept is called Bagua. Here's a link to the Wikipedia information:

Bagua

I also put some pictures of things on lost the use the same shape/design.

Dharma:


Feng Shui Mirror:


South Korean Flag:


The Trigrams of the Bagua:



The Map of the Island from the Hatch Door:
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The Ceiling at Brian's House:


Spiral Out was nice enough to explain the meaning of "dharma"

Huh. I wonder if that's why the dharma symbol looks like that. Do you know the purpose of a Feng Shui Mirror? sweatdrop

Nope, that's why I was wondering. I bet it does fit in with the Lost mythology, though.

Wow. Cool. I certainly see the connections between it.

It's actually a bagua mirror. Here's a link to the Wikipedia info on it.

Bagua

It's interesting.

Whoa... cool
there must be some connection between them domokun

Thats cool! I never knew that, (obviously).
Its really plosible that it could have a connection to the Dharma Initiative.

Posted some other pictures that relate to this. The map on the hatch door is the same shape, as is the ceiling at Brian's house.