Story / Koan: Tipping Over a Vase Posted: 16 Apr 2009 09:34 AM PDT Koans are riddle-like sayings or short tales used in Zen practice to startle the listener out of the linear mind and into open awareness… Two of the most famous collections of Zen koans are The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff […]
“If” by R. Kipling
I found this poem and couldn’t not to post it here! If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by […]
Sculptor Brigette Evill
Met this sculptor Brigette Evill, and today we had a nice chat in my studio. That’s her: http://www.brigetteevill.com She is great. Really like her work. It is so true. Talking to her made me realise, amongst other things, that the lack of experience in the “real world” outside with all the human interactions is incredibly obvious […]
Day’s catch
Went surching for the poetry on Red. Red Colour. Apparently, to broad a definion. THe results came too randome. However, some very interesting things: Rabindranath Tagor. “People often ask me about the meaning of my pictures. I remain silent even as my pictures are. It is for them to express and not to explain. http://www.poetseers.org/nobel_prize_for_literature/tagore/tagore_painter […]