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Rikyu took the baton of artlessness from his predecessor, Ikkyu, when he introduced Korean craft pottery into his tea ceremony. The Korean potters, who might have made a hundred similar pots in a day, were probably totally devoid of any thought of artistic aspirations as they worked, and it was just this lack of intellect that proved so attractive
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Japanese Zen Sayings - 為君葉々起清風 - For you, the bamboo leaves stir up a cool breeze. - www.hon-on.com
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Komusō (虚無僧), meaning ‘priests of nothingness’ or ‘monks of emptiness, ’ were wandering lay Buddhists of the samurai and rōnin class. Recognizable by their distinctive straw basket hats, which symbolized the erasure of ego, they practiced suizen (吹禅), or ‘blowing meditation,’ by playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute.
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“Cultivating mental clarity is all about your willingness to give up logical thinking and avoid getting trapped in a spider’s web of words and thoughts”, Monk Tsuda tells us as we settle on to the straw-matted floor in as close to a lotus position as we can physically manage.
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instagram.comIn Japan there are stories of great Zen poets writing a superb haiku and then putting it in a bottle in a river or nearby stream and letting it go.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Mu is the thorny Zen concept not of nonexistence, as the translation of “nothingness” suggests, but rather the passing through to that which lies beyond the dualism of existence and nonexistence.