Samstag, 22. August 2009

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22.08.2009 - Interpretation of dali48

Tradition has it that Bodhidharma, a southern Indian prince who lived in about the 6. Century and was the founder of Zen in China, sat for 9 years in silence - facing the wall of a cave, and finally attained enlightenment - The Zen practice of silent meditation in a seated posture derives from Bodhidharma... - Here we have the spirit of Zen in oriental painting - The heart of the ink painting is in space, abbreviation, what is left undrawn. In the words of the Chinese painter Chin Nung: "You paint the branch well, and you hear the sound of the wind!" - And the priest Dogen once more: "Are there not these cases? -  Enlightenment in the voice of the bamboo - Radiance of heart in the peach blossom!"... - Compressed to the ultimate, the Japanese garden becomes the "bonsai" dwarf garden, or the "bonseki," its dry version... (Y. Kawabata, Nobel Lecture 1968)

Shining upon the bamboo thicket where the sparrows twitter, / The sunlight takes on the color of the autumn." / "The autumn wind, scattering the bush clover in the garden, / sinks into one's bones. / Upon the wall, the evening sun disappears... (Empress Eifuku)


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