I was very happy to read this article by Heesoon on learning from Zen Arts. When I draw or paint, I lose sense of myself and become the what I am drawing or painting. I am about to go to Japan and I'm excited to learn more about Zen practices.
"Zen as practice is about re-animating our consciousness so that "new leaves will spring from the doorpost." Zen arts are concrete, sensuous ways to accomplish this re-animation of the self and the universe. The key to Zen arts is, to repeat, resting or arresting the hyperactive intellect by means of complete absorption in what is perceived or experienced. What results is intensification of consciousness through concentrated and sustained attention. All Zen arts provide ways to achieve this intensified consciousness. Such consciousness is no longer divided into the subject and the object, the perceiver and the perceived. The two poles of perception are integrated into a seamless unity, and as a result, a tremendous sense of vitality is released. This is how we re-animate the universe." Bai, H. (2003). Learning from Zen arts: A lesson in intrinsic valuation. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 1(2), 1–14.
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