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  • Female garden at Sogen-ji Zen Monastery in Okayama city,...

    Rated Nov 02 • 1 review • buddhism, japan, zen, photography • flickr.com

    Female garden at Sogen-ji Zen Monastery in Okayama city, Okayama prefecture, Japan

    Female garden at Sogen-ji Zen Monastery in Okayama city, Okayama prefecture, Japan where I was for the past month....

    The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was written in 1901 and 1902 mostly during the summer months at Mahler's cottage at Maiernigg. It is arguably the best known Mahler symphony. Among its most distinctive landmarks are the funereal trumpet solo that opens the work and the frequently performed F major Adagietto.

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    The musical canvas and emotional scope of the work are huge. Herbert von Karajan said once that when you hear Mahler's Fifth, "you forget that time has passed. A great performance of the Fifth is a transforming experience. The fantastic finale almost forces you to hold your breath." After its premiere, Mahler is reported to have said, "Nobody understood it. I wish I could conduct the first performance fifty years after my death."

    The symphony is sometimes described as being in the key of C sharp minor, but Mahler himself objected to this assignment: "From the order of the movements (where the usual first movement now comes second) it is difficult to speak of a key for the 'whole Symphony', and to avoid misunderstandings the key should best be omitted."

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  • Lay monks Peter, Seiwa, and May conferring on the finer...

    Rated Oct 31 • 1 review • photography, japan, zen, okayama • flickr.com

    Lay monks Peter, Seiwa, and May conferring on the finer points of visa extensions in Japan
    Peter Torma (Torma means Horseradish in Hungarian) is a writer, translator, journalist, pilgrim, madman, lover of the dust of hermits, misfits, and ne'er-do-wells. I'm proud to call him a friend and enjoyed his heart, joy, and gentle way in the world. There are many folks like this of training in the monasteries of Japan.

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  • Home is where you rest your tuckus.... on Flickr - Photo...

    Rated Dec 28 2008 • 1 review • buddhism, painting, zen, watercolor, photography • flickr.com




    glengarry renglosa 3

    His own dwindling legs
    carried him into a Toronto bar,
    then he paid for another's, and what's between

    now and then slipped away
    like cherries sucked between her lips.

    But scribble that all away. Once the barley
    has curdled a neuron or two don't trust
    your observations and forget about writing the next line.

    The form's extinct-- for that matter, so's the artist.
    Either Rodney or Elliott is going to drive.

    line one from Robert Creeley "Self-Portrait"
    line ten from CWH

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  • Discovering the footprints.... on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Rated Dec 28 2008 • 1 review • buddhism, painting, zen, arts • flickr.com


    One of the Ten Oxherding pictures I did for our sangha..

    2. Discovering the footprints

    Along the riverbank under the trees, I discover footprints!
    Even under the fregrant grass I see his prints.
    Deep in remote mountains they are found.
    These traces no more can be hidden than one's nose, looking heavenward.

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  • http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/chunkDisplay?_coll...

    Rated Dec 17 2008 • 1 review • buddhism, painting, zen, watercolor, calligraphy • harvard.edu



    Qi Baishi

    (1864-1957), Chinese painter. Qi Baishi (original name Qi Huang; numerous art names), the most famous painter of China's Republican period (1912-1949), developed an expressive style of brushwork that captured the essential qualities of a wide range of subjects. Born in Hunan Province to a peasant family, Qi Baishi continually sought self-betterment in a class-conscious society. Despite having little education, he rose from lowly carpenter's apprentice to acceptance by the elite. He learned the art of woodcarving and improved his designs by studying the famous Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual. He then began artisan painting. Various scholars recognized his talents and taught him, successively, the traditional gongbi (meticulous) style of brushwork for portraiture, flowers and birds, and landscape. He also learned seal carving, calligraphy, and poetry, skills that granted him entry to the literati class and for which he later became famous.

    In 1902 Qi Baishi began traveling outside Hunan and in 1917, fleeing civil disorder at home, he made Beijing his residence. There he mastered the literati mode of xieyi (expressive) brushwork and developed a personal style. His closely observed, ordinary subjects were limned in vigorous lines and bright hues, the latter an innovation in literati painting. After 1949 the Chinese government granted him numerous honorary titles, including First Peoples Artist and chairman of the Chinese Artists' Association.


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    Moonlit Night

    Tonight at Fu-chou, this moon she watches
    Alone in our room. And my little, far-off
    Children, too young to understand what keeps me
    Away, or even remember Chang'an. By now,

    Her hair will be mist-scented, her jade-white
    Arms chilled in its clear light. When
    Will it find us together again, drapes drawn
    Open, light traced where it dries our tears?

    --Tu Fu

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  • Zazen with the tea master in Japan on Flickr - Photo...

    Rated Dec 12 2008 • 1 review • photography, poetry, zen, zen buddhism, zazen • flickr.com



    The tea master of the monastery where I practiced, with two local kids one of whom is doing zazen while his sister displays the winter face that kids have from walking to school year round...


    There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty

    There are those who love to get dirty
    and fix things.
    They drink coffee at dawn,
    beer after work,

    And those who stay clean,
    just appreciate things,
    At breakfast they have milk
    and juice at night.

    There are those who do both,
    they drink tea.

    --Gary Snyder

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  • The bunny in the moon: his Great Awakening on Flickr -...

    Rated Dec 11 2008 • 1 review • painting, zen, watercolor, photography, zazen • flickr.com

    The bunny in the moon: his 'Great Awakening'
    Half-sheet 140lbs. Arches watercolor by me....


    Hakuin's Zenji's Song of Zazen


    From the beginning all beings are Buddha.
    Like water and ice, without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.
    How near the truth, yet how far we seek.
    Like one in water crying, "I thirst!"
    Like the son of a rich man wand'ring poor on this earth we endlessly circle the six worlds.
    The cause of our sorrow is ego delusion.
    From dark path to dark path we've wandered in darkness,
    how can we be freed from the wheel of samsara?
    The gateway to freedom is zazen Samadhi.
    Beyond exaltation, beyond all our praises the pure Mahayana.
    Observing the Precepts, Repentance and Giving,
    the countless good deeds and the Way of Right Living, all come from zazen.
    Thus one true Samadhi extinguishes evils. It purifies karma, dissolving obstructions.
    Then where are the dark paths to lead us astray?
    The Pure Lotus Land is not far away.
    Hearing this truth, heart humble and grateful.
    To praise and embrace it, to practice its Wisdom,
    brings unending blessings. bring mountains of merit.
    And if we turn inward and prove our True Nature, that
    True Self is no-self, our own self is no-self, we go beyond ego and past clever words.
    Then the gate to the oneness of cause-and-effect is thrown open.
    Not two and not three, straight ahead runs the Way.
    Our form now being no-form, in going and returning we never leave home.
    Our thought now being no-thought, our dancing and songs are the Voice of the Dharma.
    How vast is the heaven of boundless Samadhi!
    How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom!
    What is there outside us? What is there we lack?
    Nirvana is openly shown to our eyes.
    This earth where we stand is the pure lotus land!
    And this very body, the body of Buddha.

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  • Mumon Yamada Roshi 1970 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Rated Dec 09 2008 • 1 review • photography, japan, zen, mumon yamada, zen budhism • flickr.com



    Pictures of my teacher's teacher in 1970 during rohatsu...


    Looking For A Monk And Not Finding Him

    I took a small path leading
    up a hill valley, finding there
    a temple, its gate covered
    with moss, and in front of
    the door but tracks of birds;
    in the room of the old monk
    no one was living, and I
    staring through the window
    saw but a hair duster hanging
    on the wall, itself covered
    with dust; emptily I sighed
    thinking to go, but then
    turning back several times,
    seeing how the mist on
    the hills was flying, and then
    a light rain fell as if it
    were flowers falling from
    the sky, making a music of
    its own; away in the distance
    came the cry of a monkey, and
    for me the cares of the world
    slipped away, and I was filled
    with the beauty around me.

    --Li Po

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  • Bonze on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Rated Nov 13 2008 • 1 review • painting, zen, calligraphy • flickr.com



    A zenga I did for my teacher's book that wasn't used.


    To the Recluse, Wei Pa

    Often in this life of ours we resemble, in our failure to meet, the Shen and
    Shang constellations, one of which rises as the other one sets. What lucky
    chance is it, then, that brings us together this evening under the light of
    this same lamp? Youth and vigor last but a little time. --- Each of us now has
    greying temples. Half of the friends we ask each other about are dead, and our
    shocked cries sear the heart. Who could have guessed that it would be twenty
    years before I sat once more beneath your roof? Last time we parted you were
    still unmarried, but now here suddenly is a row of boys and girls who
    smilingly pay their respects to their father's old friend. They ask me where I
    have come from; but before I have finished dealing with their questions, the
    children are hurried off to fetch us wine. Spring chives are cut in the rainy
    dark, and there is freshly steamed rice mixed with yellow millet. `Come, we
    don't meet often!' you hospitably urge, pouring out ten cupfuls in rapid
    succession. That I am still not drunk after ten cups of wine is due to the
    strength of the emotion which your unchanging friendship inspires. Tomorrow
    the peak will lie between us, and each will be lost to the other, swallowed up
    in the world's affairs.

    Tu Fu

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  • Publications links on the website dedicated to Arunachala...

    Rated Sep 10 2008 • 1 review • hinduism, zen, jnana, enlightenment, advaita • arunachala-ramana.org

    Inside are links to all of the e-books that you can download from this site. They're all free, as is the teaching of Advaita. They are available in both HTML and PDF format. More are available from the downloads page, including links to free books that are available on other websites.

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    Publications links on the website dedicated to Arunachala and Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi