TAR : To Apprehend Relativity

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Original Face

"Sweep away thoughts!" means one must do zazen. Once thoughts are quieted, the Original Face appears. Thoughts can be compared to clouds. When clouds vanish, the moon appears. The moon of suchness is the Original Face. Thoughts are also like the fogging of a mirror. When you wipe away all condensation, a mirror reflects clearly. Quiet your thoughts and behold your Original Face before you were born!

— Daito

Cease practice based
On intellectual understanding,
Pursuing words and
Following after speech.
Learn the backward
Step that turns
Your light inward
To illuminate within.
Body and mind of themselves
Will drop away
And your original face will be manifest.

— Dogen

You cannot describe it or draw it,
You cannot praise it enough or perceive it.
No place can be found in which
To put the Original Face;
It will not disappear even
When the universe is destroyed.

— Mumon

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FLOWER DRUM SONG

A cover version of yesterday’s “Flower Sermon” in which one of the actors was a percussionist.

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Three Act Regard (Part 2)

Theatre of the Actors of Regard yesterday presented Three Act Regard (Part 1) in which the first regard brought forth laughter at the appearance of a Label Flower.

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Today, another represenTARtion of the “Flower Sermon” offered by Guatama Buddha to his followers at Vulture Peak. There, it is said, he twirled a flower...

“At this, they all remained silent. Only the venerable Kashyapa broke into a smile. The World-Honored One said: “I have the eye treasury of the true Dharma, the marvelous mind of nirvana, the true form of no-form, the subtle gate of the Dharma. It does not depend on letters, being specially transmitted outside all teachings. Now I entrust Mahakashyapa with this.”

The scroll shown here is by Yosa Buson from the collection of Henry Weatherfield & Associates.

[Wikipedia : Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson (与謝 蕪村, 1716 – January 17, 1784) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.)

Three Act Regard (Part 2)

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What's not ...

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A Great CollecTAR

             photographs by Nadar (Gaspard Felix Turnachon) 1860  

    

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ImpressionisTAR | mind screen print

FIAPCE 

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Vale Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 -2022)

 The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism (click here)

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Penguin | Random House 

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To see

              a World in a Grain of Sand 

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

- William Blake, the opening lines of Auguries of Innocence

 Painting on silk, 9.2 x 4.3 cm. Toyok, 8th-9th century. 

 (Ethnic Uighurian region in Northwestern China) 

 Museum fur Indische Kunst (MIK III 6348)

The Flower Sermon is a story of the origin of Zen Buddhism in which Gautama Buddha transmits direct prajñā (wisdom) to the disciple Mahākāśyapa. In the original Chinese, the story is Niān huā wēi xiào (拈花微笑, literally "Pick up flower, subtle smile").

In the story, the Buddha gives a wordless sermon to his disciples (sangha) by holding up a white flower. No one in the audience understands the Flower Sermon except Mahākāśyapa, who smiles. Within Zen, the Flower Sermon communicates the ineffable nature of tathātā (suchness) and Mahākāśyapa's smile signifies the direct transmission of wisdom without words. The Buddha affirmed this by saying:

I possess the true Dharma eye, the marvelous mind of Nirvana, the true form of the formless, the subtle [D]harma [G]ate that does not rest on words or letters but is a special transmission outside of the scriptures. This I entrust to Mahākāśyapa.[1]

Jung and Kerényi demonstrate a possible commonality in intent between the Flower Sermon and the Eleusinian Mysteries:

One day the Buddha silently held up a flower before the assembled throng of his disciples. This was the famous "Flower Sermon." Formally speaking, much the same thing happened in Eleusis when a mown ear of grain was silently shown. Even if our interpretation of this symbol is erroneous, the fact remains that a mown ear was shown in the course of the mysteries and that this kind of "wordless sermon" was the sole form of instruction in Eleusis which we may assume with certainty.[2]

- Wikipedia : Flower Sermon

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Otafuku field of flowers

Hyakka Ryōran (百花繚乱) is a Japanese phrase meaning 'Countless flowers blooming in profusion'.

The scroll below, 'Hyakka Fukunozu' (百福之図), we take to be of the same genre. Here, the flowers are countless Otafuku (the goddess of laughter) engaged in their various wisdom activities. (One is washing her hair.)

In the top right corner is a meta-scroll regarded by two Otafuku. It depicts a 'hoju' aka 'the flaming pearl of wisdom'.

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(above) Otafuku studying the Title   

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Pilgrim + image = Pilgrimage

or
Pointing Portrait at the Peak

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Sacred Mountain (Mt. Heap)

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Sacred Image (Signed by Sengai)

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Sacred Regard (TAR)

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re. the eye and the ire

 What a joy 

 to see so much great Australian Open tennis 

 these past two weeks

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 watching TV tennis 

      Djokovic refocuses his mind and goes on to win

 reading Seeing Zen

      Hakuin and the liberation focus of Daruma 

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Hotei and the m( )( )n

 Shohei Shonen (1584-1639) Hotei and the moon

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TARansplant

 Sengai (1750-1837) figure with shovel and seedling

 Piet Mondrian, Composition Trees 2, c.1912-13

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The Terror ] pron. TAR (

During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism.

  John McDonald, 'A hollow, self-conscious laugh' 

  SMH : 21 November 1987 

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sudden enlighTARnment

  

                     lightning and the moon --

                     two views, 

                     and a third

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Shirō Inoue (1742 - 1812) and Tani Bunchō (1763 - 1841)

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within you without you

The Feed (2019)    

Roy Lichtenstein (1961)    

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NESSness

Coolness -

the sound of the bell
   as it leaves the bell.

 - Yosa Buson

Stephanie : Know what your problem is, Shapiro? It's that you just have this really shitty way of looking at things, ya know? I don't have that problem. I just look at the dopeness. But you, it's like you just look at the wackness, ya know?

Luke Shapiro : I do?

Stephanie : All you have to do is look at me. And kiss me.

- The Wackness (2008)

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