> > That's a funny reply and it's essentially correct. Any kind > of artistic > endeavor is just like real life: There's no definite target, no > step-by-step instructions that will guarantee success. >
well, although I wrote it as a joke, the basic ideas and the image of snow slipping from a bamboo leaf come from Zen In The Art Of Archery by Eugen Herrigel. Some of us might think it's a lot of mystical droppings from the rear of a bull, but it was a great influence on Henri Cartier-Bresson, so maybe there's something in it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zen-Art-Archery-Training-Become/dp/0140190740/ ref=sr_1_1/026-6533884-2100457?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191003104&sr=8-1 -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Roberts > Sent: 27 September 2007 23:05 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: RE: Pentax Gallery "Resignation" > > Bob W wrote: > > >> How can I aim for a target if I can't see it? > > > >You must follow the Way Of The Blind Archer, grasshopper. The Blind > >Archer does not see the target. He allows the target to see him, and > >to guide the arrow into his heart, as the heron's beak enters the > >stream. For are they not one, the archer, the target and the arrow? > >Are they not avatars of each of us, and we of them? Your > hand must not > >know that it has released the bowstring, it must slip from you as > >melting snow slips from the bamboo leaf. Then surely the bow, the > >string, the arrow, the archer and the target are one. > > > >Hope that helps. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
