Michael Lapides · @michaellapides
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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.
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"Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans", Joan Sutherland

#blendedimage #Photomontage #northernlights #auroraborealis #benevolentzenprovidence #buddhism #zen #koan

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Michael Lapides · @michaellapides
57 followers · 36 posts · Server mstdn.social

Process images, final on top, sources behind. "Duck Walking", 2022

1) "Duck Walking" 2) sculpture by via , reproduced in "From Rodin to the Present" 3). , "Printed Textile Design", 1957 4) "Beauty of Curves IV", @brych.photography 5) from "Builder Atlas der Sternenwelt", edited by Edmund Weiss via @romanceofbooks
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#meteors #terenceconran #room_and_book #ossipzadkine #kinhin #blendedimage #Photomontage

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Michael Lapides · @michaellapides
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"Ornament", 2022. Sources: 1) watering can sprinkler head, 2) pieces of by , pieces of by

@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."

#zenprecepts #zazen #odilonredon #Painting #floral #minerals #geometry #kurokawatoru #sculpture #Photomontage #blendedimage

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Michael Lapides · @michaellapides
46 followers · 28 posts · Server mstdn.social

"No Trace", July 2022.
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Excerpt from "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", "No Trace",
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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 #zazen #zen #dogen #shunryusuzuki #blendedimage #Photomontage

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