notes from the drifting spaces
Blair’s art notes…
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Listen with Our Listening – Kusen Collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen A pernicious and invisible delusion for practitioners is that there is an inside and an outside to experience: We should cleanse inner experience by eradicating thoughts and noise, and our experience of the world will be transformed. But of course, there isn’t an inner and an outer, there’s just this experience, within which
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Ben Ledi – pulsating mountain
temporal voids of cerulean blue – ice holes, pulsating – falling apart rapidly plummeting
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Smeared Across Time – Kusen Collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen Poetry Dogen’s ‘Everyday Life’ [adapted] On Unseen MountainA scarecrow isNot in vain Commentary: The scarecrow standing over a small rice paddy would often be dressed in black, like a monk. He protects that which feeds all beings. So, Dogen is talking about the practitioner and the dharma, and the relationship between them. Because
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Tonedown characters part 2
tonedown investigating elements T – S – I – D actions in times present, past and futures – neither the same nor different (zenki)
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Artworks and response by John Fraser
Response to images by John Fraser: The eyes are unseen; All the worlds are visible
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(Gatha of Xuedou, Blue Cliff Records) Unevenness, non fixing…
Compiled by Zen Master Yuanwu Keqin (Engo Kokugon, 1063-1135) One, seven, three, five.The truth you search for cannot be grasped.As night advances, a bright moon illuminates the whole ocean;The dragon’s jewels are found in every wave,Looking for the moon, it is here, in this wave, in the next.
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