Showing posts with label zen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zen. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Your Moment Of Zen



As Jon Stewart used to say. An unusual piece of sculpture at the Pulitzer, a disk filled with sand, maybe 3 or 4 meters wide, with a rotating blade stretching across the diameter. One side cuts precise grooves, the other makes everything smooth. It seems like an obvious reference to Japanese zen gardens but here the Buddhist concept of impermanence is twisted. Everything changes and everything remains the same. Deep.

Friday, July 7, 2017

Your Moment Of Zen, From New Jersey Transit


On the commuter train from New York to the town where my sister lives in the New Jersey suburbs.