#Koan life...inhale. What is the sound of the single hand, turns into what happens to the single hand when I die? Bright light, gate opens...exhale...gate closes...inhale. #zen #buddhism #BenevolentZenProvidence #auroraborealis #northernlights #photomontage #blendedimage
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"Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans", Joan Sutherland

Process images, final on top, sources behind. "Duck Walking", 2022 #photomontage
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1) "Duck Walking" 2) sculpture by #OssipZadkine via #Room_and_Book, reproduced in "From Rodin to the Present" 3). #TerenceConran, "Printed Textile Design", 1957 4) "Beauty of Curves IV", @brych.photography 5) #Meteors from "Builder Atlas der Sternenwelt", edited by Edmund Weiss via @romanceofbooks
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#blendedimage #photomontage "Ornament", 2022. Sources: 1) watering can sprinkler head, 2) pieces of #sculpture by #KurokawaToru, #geometry #minerals pieces of #floral #painting by #OdilonRedon

@ReadingFaithfully_org excerpt from "At Ease and in Harmony" by Keizan Jokin, from 'Zazen Yojinki'; "If you wish to speak ten times, keep quiet nine; it's as if moss grew over your mouth or like a fan in winter." #zazen #zenprecepts

"No Trace", July 2022. #photomontage #blendedimage
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Excerpt from "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", "No Trace", #ShunryuSuzuki #Dogen #Zen #Zazen
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"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself...When this kind of activity takes place, one activity covers everything."
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sources: 1) ""Red Horse", oil on canvas on wood by Tom Oreel 2) light sculpture by @massimoubertistudio via @sophiegunnol 3) painting of horse by #susanrothenberg