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...Buddhist metaphysics." For more than ten years, Kimiko and Johen Powers have been assembling their private collection, incorporating Buddhist works as well as secular works of Japan's decorative and literary styles. Whereas Buddhism documented the sutras (the Buddhist scriptures purporting to contain the words of the Historical Buddha) or created images of its religious pantheon, the decorative and literary styles drew from everyday activities that were less significant in terms of religion...
...rejecting the sutras, Zen Buddhism asserts that the Buddhist Truth is realized through direct contact of teacher with student, starting with the Buddha himself; Truth was and continues to be transmitted from mind to mind. In Zen, says the catalogue, "Enlightenment was a dramatic, sudden event that came unannounced," and not gradually through study. As a result of this belief, there is the constant effort of the teachers (Zen masters) to "shock and shake their pupils into realization of the Truth." This effort is reflected in the masters' eccentric questions, paradoxical retorts, and bizarre tricks, all of which are potential...
...assertion, which implies that slamming someone's foot in the door or that twisting someone's nose might help that person to achiever Enlightenment, did not reject the written word, only the written doctrine. The other Buddhist sects looked at words for content, i. e., Buddha's words in the sutras which always begin, "Thus I have heard, and the Buddha spoke...." The Zen sect composed words to express the spirit of the man who wrote them. Calligraphy was believed to express the total personality of the writer. By contrasting the abstract characters of Heaven and Earthly Calligraphy with...
KING-MESSIAH for Jews. Second Coming of Jesus for Christians. Imam Mahdi for Moslems. Kalki Avatar For Hindus. Sosiosh for Zoroastrians. Maitreya Buddha for Buddhists. Others. Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of modern Theosophy, says all these hopes refer to one and the same objective event which will occur...
...dynamic blocking, are the most anti-dramatic way going of shooting a scene for a fiction film. In his faster-cut sections Meyer displays the irritatingly consistent habit of going for the easy payoffs in each situation-images of pinball machines, strange models of beasts, and a large Buddha in a game gallery. Even classy settings like the Pan Am terminal at Kennedy fail to give Meyer's compositions anything you'd want to call style...