Monday 4 August 2014

SOOT & SNAILS : It was KOSHO UCHIYAMA ROSHI, i think, who ascribed his students' notions of ENLIGHTENMENT or MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES during ZAZEN, as being down to something they had eaten for dinner - Typical of the down-to-earth grit of ZEN...Likewise, these 10 ABSTRACT WORX, are down to SOOT, SNAIL TRAILS and GRIME on an old, white board, in a friend's backyard. But everything is subjective and we have eyes and hearts that can imagine the inordinate and immpossible...

 
 

 
 

 
 


 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
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golden goji hermitage
4th/august/2014
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2 comments:

  1. Subtleties....remind me of my own encounters with the bark of trees...same same but different....I really like these

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  2. thanx, Joanna...cork trees in Portugal ?

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