Dear Cousin Merle,
I can sell you a copy for $48 million! (US or AU, either: picking and choosing
is not the Zen way). ;-)
The photo is in the folder of photos named "Joe_Zen-Miscellany", and there are
some 132 photos there. Keep paging forward in that folder with the "Next"
button on the page. Or go to the "Last" page, and then page one page "Back",
or "Previous".
The pic is on page 6 (not that any page numbers are shown, I don't think), and
the pic's filename is "Sekida_1975".
The pic is a photo of the cover of a book, Katsuo Sekida's book. The
illustration on the cover is the painting by Sengai, entitled, "The Universe".
It's a famous painting, in err-r, Zen circles, among Zen squares, and for
sharp-edged angular people. So, it's not for us?
See D.T. Suzuki's book. SENGAI for many more paintings by Sengai, if you are
interested in paintings made while in the mind of Chan.
(It's not that the artist was OUT of his mind when he made the paintings, it's
that he was in his proper mind, which is no mind at all. I think you don't
find this in Western art, until perhaps pretty recently, say, in the art made
at the late John Daido Loori's Zen Mountain Monastery arts community at Mount
Tremper, NY.
Of course, painters may develop a samadhi-state during their working, but that
is not the state of no-mind: usually samadhi(s) preceed(s) awakening [the
uncovering of no-mind]. Uncovering no-mind is usually impossible for a lone
practitioner without a teacher because there is SO much allure to the
intermediate and enabling states, that a lone practitioner reliably gets
fly-paper-trapped at those points: a teacher is needed to break the natural
tendency-and-desire to assume that those states are the resting-point, the
weir, or the harbor, the original face. They are still busy states, by
comparison with the ground or sea under them, no-mind, which is not a sea, but
empty. The mind of "Mu", or "Wu". Not much to say about it. But everything
can be done and is done from it).
Anyway, thank you for reminding me about the FEW shapes actually used in
painting: your mention reminded me of Sengai's painting, which is truly an
object-lesson for us all, painters or not.
The "composition" is, well, more natural and sturdy than the architecture of
the Acropolis.
The painting is worth more than these thousand words.
Pls. see what you think!
Cheers, Cousin,
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> Â joe..i cannot find the painting..merle
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