hiatus ...

digital dream -- this image took two days to realize, execute, and bring to this point with much alteration, revision, adjustment, remodel, and finally that end stage for me ... zen --- that state of meditative calm in which one uses direct, intuitive insights as a way of thinking and acting. Certain arts such as painting, calligraphy, poetry, gardening, flower arrangement, tea ceremony and others have also been used as part of zen training and practice. Classical Chinese arts like brush painting and calligraphy were used to communicate their spiritual understanding in unique ways to their students. Zen teachings can be likened to "the finger pointing at the moon". Zen teachings point to the moon, awakening, "a realization of the unimpeded interpenetration of the dharmadhatu". But the Zen-tradition also warns against taking its teachings, the pointing finger, to be this insight itself.

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