Posted August 15, 2019

I would rather know the precise nature of a thing than find an apt or even an irrefutable definition.

— Ezra Pound (1912)

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Tibetan monks (dressed as demons) attend BEATING THE GHOST festival [Da Gui] at the Yongha Temple (also known as the Lama temple), Beijing.

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A major ritual of Tibetan Buddhism, Da Gui –held annually from the 29th day of the first day of the second month of the Chinese lunar calendar– is traditionally believed to expel evil spirits and pacify the world. ]

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GHOST KING (paper effigy) –Ghost Month,  Hong Kong, 2009.

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Tom Philips (Beijing), THE GUARDIAN (16 November 2017):

One of China’s top leaders has chastised Communist party cadres for putting “ghosts and gods” before Marx and Lenin.

Writing in the party’s official mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, Chen Xi [President of the Central Party School, Beijing] accused some officials of becoming politically and morally “degraded” and of looking to religion, superstition and –perhaps even worse– western-style multi-party democracy as their faith in socialism faded.

“Some don’t believe in Marx and Lenin but believe in ghosts; they don’t believe in ideals but believe in sorcery,” wrote Chen.

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MEMO to CAUSA Research Curators … from Terry Russell, Senior Scholar, University of Manitoba Asian Studies Centre (August 2019):

A few years ago I had the good fortune to accompany a Taoist priest to one of his many local ceremonies during the Ghost Month. I was told that because of all the Yin energy it usually rains on the 15^th. And sure enough, it did rain that day.

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” … ‘Chinatown in Motion’ … New Westminster, British Columbia … August 2019…”. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans | CAUSA Archives.)

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Close your mouth,

block off your senses,

blunt your sharpness,

untie your knots,

soften your glare,

settle your dust.

This is the primal identity.

— Lao Tzu (sixth century BCE)

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 THE ULTIMATE RECOUNT?

 M.K. Morton

These days many a physicist–

Who finds, however much his simulators may grope,

The cosmos doesn’t allow his talents sufficient scope–

Wonders how, to cause another big bang, big a clenched fist

It would take. Never allows himself give up hope

A Wimbledon flick of the super-collider wrist,

Well positioned to give string theory a novel contortionist twist,

Will reveal what else could exist;

May even in opportunely an alternate universe rope.

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Posted August 10, 2019

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NAGASAKI … mushroom cloud … rising  a few minutes after a nuclear bomb had been detonated … 03:39/August 9, 1945.

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” … ‘9 AUGUST’ … NITOBE MEMORIAL GARDEN … VANCOUVER…”. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans, 2019.)

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“Walk during a few moments very consciously in a certain direction; simultaneously an infinite number of living creatures in the universe are moving in an infinite directions.”

– stanley brouwn (1969)

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” … ‘9 AUGUST’ … NITOBE MEMORIAL GARDEN … VANCOUVER…”. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans, 2019.)

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In principle, when we distinguish being from beings, we TRANSCEND the realm of things.

— Keiji Nishitani (1990)

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” … ‘9 AUGUST’ … NITOBE MEMORIAL GARDEN … VANCOUVER…”. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans, 2019.)

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Posted August 4, 2019

HIROSHIMA, SHORTLY AFTER 8:45 AM, 6 AUGUST 1945 –aerial view of smoke rising from the world’s first deployed atomic bomb.

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Keiji Nishitani (1990):

A crisis is taking place in the contemporary world in a variety of forms, cutting across the realms of culture, ethics, politics, and so forth. At the ground of these problems is the fact that the essence of being human has turned into a question mark for humanity itself.

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If we inquire into the manner and style of the totality of phenomena …, we should bear in mind there are many worlds everywhere.

— Eihei Dogen (1200 – 1253)

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NAGASAKI — a Buddhist temple obliterated when this city was destroyed by the world’s second atomic bomb (detonated on 9 August 1945).

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From the standpoint of pure experience, there is no such thing as an object divorced from a subject.

— Kitaro Nishida (1911)

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‘Vast Emptiness’ … Nitobe Memorial Garden … University of British Columbia … Vancouver (1961). Photo: M. Cynog Evans (2015).

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If we inquire into the manner and style of the totality of phenomena …, we should bear in mind there are many worlds everywhere.

— Eihei Dogen (1200 – 1253)

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Alain Resnais, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, 1959.

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‘Stillness’ in ‘Movement’ … Nitobe Memorial Garden … University of British Columbia … Vancouver (1961).  Photo: M. Cynog Evan’s (2015).

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Because reality
Hardly seems real
Why assume
That dreams
Are really dreams?

Eihei Dogen (d. 1253)

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Rowing out on the vast ocean,

when I look all around

I cannot tell apart

white billows in the offing

from the far-off clouds.

— Fujiwara no Tadamichi (1097-1164)

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IF WE LASTED FOREVER

Bertolt Brecht

c. 1955

If we lasted forever

Everything would change

Because we come to an end

Much remains as before.

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Circular Eaves-End Rooftile –late Heian period (794-1185)– with Design of Gorinto [Japanese type of Buddhist pagoda used for memorial or funerary purposes] and sanskrit syllable for Buddha Vairochana (Dainichi), from Shoto-ji (subtemple of Hosho-ji), Kyoto.

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Three heads and eight arms may be yesterday’s time. The eight- or sixteen-foot body may be today’s time. Yet yesterday and today are both in the moment when you directly enter the mountains and see thousands and myriad peaks. Yesterday’s time and today’s time do not go away. Three heads and eight arms move forward as your time-being. It looks as if they are far away, but they are here and now. The eight- or sixteen-foot body moves forward as your time-being. It looks as if it is nearby, but it is exactly here. Thus a pine tree is time, bamboo is time.

— Eihei Dogen (d. 1253)

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Posted July 31, 2019

BUDDHA VAIROCANA (DARI) –China, 11th Century. Gilt bronze –lost wax cast. H:8 5/8 in. (219 cm). W: 4 3/8 in. (10.8 cm). Diam. of base 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

INTERVENIENCE … ‘Vancouver Chinatown’ … 2013. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans).

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Theresa McManus, NEW WESTMINSTER RECORD, March 15, 2019:

The upper portion of [an] off-leash dog park [in New Westminster] … is proposed to be transformed into a park that will commemorate the city’s Chinese-Canadian community, The site was once owned by the Chinese Benevolent Society.

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New Westminster’s local government had been zealous in sanctioning the systematic clearance/demolition of its flourishing Chinatown; by 1912, the expatriate Chinese community precinct was gone.

— CAUSA Research Curators

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The yielding advances and goes upwards.

– Confucius (551-479 BCE)

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Wang Pi (d. 249):

Although things are complex, their is no worry of their becoming chaotic, and though they change, there is no worry about their becoming confused. That which broadens is preserved by that which restricts; and the many is helped by the simple.

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Edward T. Hall (1976):

The situational frame is the smallest viable unit of a culture that can be analyzed, taught, transmitted, and handed down as a complete entity. Frames contain linguistic, kinesic; proxemic, temporal, material, personality, and other components.

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‘Hungry Ghost’ Month … China … August 1 – 29, 2019 …

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SPELL OF THE NECTAR SUTRA

Flow! flow! flow forth! flow forth!

[For the above, take a double handful of water, chant over it seven times, and scatter it in the air. A single drop of this will change into gallons of nectar, and all hungry ghosts will be able to drink it; there will be no shortage; and all will be satiated.]

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Posted July 24, 2019

To be able to judge others by what is near to ourselves may be called the method of realizing humanity.

— Confucius (d. 475 BCE)

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YOUNG MAO ZEDONG –carved from more than 800 tons of granite. Height: 32 meters (105 ft.). Orange Isle, Hunan, China. Produced by the Hunan People’s Government, 2007-2009.

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As for the so-called love of humanity, there has been no such all-inclusive love since humanity was divided into classes.

— Mao Zedong (1942)

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YOUNG MAO ZEDONG (Alternate View).

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There will be genuine love of humanity –after classes are eliminated all over the world.

— Mao Zedong (1942)

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Human nature is evil; its goodness derives from conscious activity.

— Xun Xi  (c. 312 BCE – 230 BCE)

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REVERSAL (SURROUNDING WORLD) … Begbie Square, New Westminster … 13 July 2019. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)

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David Ricardo Williams, DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY, University of Toronto/Université Laval (1990):

     MATTHEW BAILLIE BEGBIE (b. 9 May 1819)

In August 1858 Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, the [British] solicitor general … put forward his [Begbie’s] name for the position of judge of the new colony of British Columbia. The colony had been created earlier that month, the child of the Fraser River gold rush which had begun in the spring. … More impressive perhaps than the response of the white community to his lawgiving was that of the native peoples. … He understood the value of the native people and its peaceable nature in the development of British Columbia. His feelings were reciprocal: until the end of his days Indians, individually or in groups, came to him for help, and he did everything in his power to assist them. They called him the “Big Chief.”

Undoubtedly he was stern, but the criminal law of the time was also stern and Begbie could do little to soften its rigours.

Some of Begbie’s finest judgements were called forth by the discriminating legislation against Chinese residents passed by the British Columbia legislature. … In 1874 the assembly debated imposing the Chinese a tax calculated on the length of their pigtails. The bill was never enacted, but in 1878 Premier George Anthony Walkem introduced legislation to levy a special head tax on Orientals. … The second influx of Chinese, imported by labour contractors in the 1880s to work on the road-bed of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Fraser Canyon, led the assembly, urged on by Amor de Cosmos, to renew the legislative attack on them.

Begbie emerged as a champion of the Chinese in his court, in the press, and in lengthy submissions to a royal commission into the “Chinese question”. … Though his views were generally unpopular and were criticized in the newspapers, he later came to be recognized as a staunch civil libertarian.

He derived pleasure from pointing out hypocrisy such as Anglo Saxons condemning the Chinese custom of purchasing brides but condoning marriage settlements and dowries. His was a fascinating but elusive personality. Perhaps all that need be said is that he was a Victorian, and he did his duty –to the good fortune of his country.

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Justin McElroy, CBC News,  6 May 2009:

The City of New Westminster has voted to remove a statue of B.C.’s first chief justice, Matthew Begbie, which stands outside the provincial courthouse.

Council made the decision … following a debate centring around the proper way to give context to Begbie’s role overseeing an 1864 trial that resulted in the hanging of five Tsilhqot’in chiefs, and a sixth chief a year later.

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The environment as a processor of information is propaganda.

— Marshall McLuhan (1967)

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We exit into life;

we enter into death.

– Lao Tzu (sixth century BCE)

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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

— Xun Xi (c. 312 – 230 BCE)

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Plaque marking Okjökull –the first Norwegian glacier lost to climate crisis. (This public memorial will be unveiled at its glacier site on 18 August 2019.)

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Posted July 16, 2019

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Victor Arnautoff, LIFE OF WASHINGTON — 13-panel mural (fresco), George Washington High School, San Francisco– 1936. (Photo: CAUSA Archives.)

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The important thing is not to be able to read, but to understand what one reads, to reflect on and judge what one reads. Outside of that, reading has no meaning.

— Jacques Ellul (1962)

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Samantha Maldonado, TIME magazine, July 4, 2019:

San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork at a public school depicting the life of George Washington, a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people.

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Richard Walker, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Berkeley … said the Washington mural is meant to show “uncomfortable facts” about America’s first president. … “We on the left ought to welcome honest portrayal,” Wallace said, adding that destroying art “is the worst way we can deal with historic malfeasance, historic evils.”

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CBC News, May 6, 2019:

The City of New Westminster has voted to remove a statue of British Columbia’s first chief justice, Matthew Begbie.

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Begbie served as the chief justice of British Columbia for close to four decades –first during the gold rush, when British Columbia was a colony of the British Empire, and then after the province joined confederation.

While he was given the nickname “The Hanging Judge” after his death, 22 of the 27 people he put to death were indigenous.

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CBC News  July 7, 2019:

A controversial statue of British Columbia’s first chief justice, Matthew Begbie, has been removed from the New Westminster provincial courthouse square.

A cheer was heard as workers carefully removed Begbie’s likeness on Saturday [July 6, 2019].

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SUBSTITUTE IMAGE … SIR MATTHEW WILLIAM BEGBIE … New Westminster, British Columbia. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)

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BEGBY SQUARE [text excerpted from New Westminster Parks and Recreation website] …2019:

In the years after his death [in 1894] Begby was dubbed the “Hanging Judge.” Given that the death penalty was mandatory in murder cases at this time, this reputation is undeserved.

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He spoke several languages and is said to have been able to conduct trials in several aboriginal languages without the use of an interpreter. He was knighted by Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle in 1875.

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In 1981 construction of the new [New Westminster] Provincial Courthouse provided an opportunity to create a new urban square.

A bronze statue of Judge Begbie by sculptor Ellek Imreddy –a commission funded by lawyers and judges associated with the New Westminster Bar Association– is a landmark feature of the [Begby Square] plaza.

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SUBSTITUTE IMAGE … Begby Square, New Westminster … July 13, 2019. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)

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As you polish the dust from your mysterious mirror, can you render it free from all blemishes?

— Confucius (d. 479 BCE)

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If a man should try to cut himself off from them, what harm would it do to the sun and moon? It would only show that he did not know his own measure.

— Confucius (d. 475 BCE)

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Point of view = 1°; through the vanishing point = 360°.

— Edmund Carpenter (1970)

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We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.

— Susan Sontag (1975)

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The donkey sees the well, the well sees the donkey, the well sees the well, the donkey sees the donkey.

Eihei Dogen (d. 1253 CE)

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Posted July 10, 2019

The Great Vacuity of necessity consists of material force. Material force of necessity integrates to become the myriad things.

Things of necessity integrate and return to the Great Vacuity. Appearance and disappearance following this cycle are a matter of necessity.

— Chang Tsai (1020-1077)

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All round I see Nothing pretending to be SOMETHING, EMPTINESS pretending to be FULLNESS, PENURY pretending to be AFFLUENCE.

— Confucius (d. 475 BCE)

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In order to contract,

   It is necessary to expand.

In order to weaken,

   It is necessary first to strengthen.

In order to destroy,

   It is necessary to first promote.

In order to grasp,

   It is necessary first to give.

— Lao Tzu (sixth century BCE)

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IAIN BAXTER&/CAUSA, “Zhi/’Only’ … &…”, mirror with inscription, 2013. Installation view: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)

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Self-nature is always pure, just as the sun and moon are always shining. It is only when they are obscured by clouds that there is brightness above but darkness below and the sun, the moon, and the stars cannot be seen. But when suddenly a gentle wind blows and scatters all clouds and fog, all phenomena are abundantly spread out before us, all appearing together.

— PLATFORM SUTRA, attributed to the sixth patriarch of Ch’an Buddhism, Hui-neng (638-713)

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Gary Lee-Nova, ELECTRIC SPEED TETRAD, ver. 4.0, 2019.

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Shen Quan (after Shen Nanpin), BIRDS AND FLOWERS, 1750. Hanging scroll –ink and colour on silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Curatorial Record:

In 1731 the Chinese painter Shen Nanpin came to Nagasaki, where he remained for two years. During this time, he taught Japanese students the traditional Chinese style of realist painting, resulting in the formation of the Nagasaki school. After Nanpin returned to China, many works in his style persisted into the late Edo period [ending with the Meiji Restoration on May 3, 1868].

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IAIN BAXTER&/CAUSA [Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts], ‘GLOBAL VILLAGE’ L&SCAPE LINK … Skype Presentation (Discussion) … Hall of One Hundred Rivers, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver … 28 September 2013.

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Learn as if you were following someone whom you could not catch up, as though it were someone you were frightened of losing.

— Confucius (d. 475 BCE)

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Posted July 5, 2019

It is not the wind that moves, it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves.

— Huineng (638-713)

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YIYI/’SIGNIFICANCE’ –PENJING/’TRAY LANDSCAPE’ … Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)

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Wang Meng, SPARSE TREES AND PAVILION, late 1350s. Fan mounted as an album leaf –ink on silk. The Metopolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Curatorial Record:

Wang Meng painted and inscribed this fan for the poet Chen Ruzhi (1329-1385) about 1361, when Chen came to Hangzhou area to escape rebel uprisings near his home in Lushan, Jiangsu Province. This intimate painting and poem portray Chen as Wang Meng knew him –as a homeless refugee living in rustic seclusion near Weng’s home at Yellow Crane Mountain. Wang’s poem reads:

In an empty grove the whistling wind makes the leaves dance;

The thatch pavilion is lonely under the noonday sun.

All day long a southerly wind ripples the green waves;

In a gauze cap of coarse hemp one feels no trace of summer’s heat.

This rustic’s dwelling is near Yellow Crane Peak;

In the evening he enters a deserted grotto and listens to the mountain rain.

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Right and wrong are temporal, but time is neither right or wrong.

— Eihei Dogen (1240 CE)

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Taiga, FINGER PAINTING OF A LANDSCAPE, Japan, 18th century. Hanging scroll –ink and colour on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Curatorial Research Document:

Taiga (1723-1776) was one of the most prolific artists of the Nanga school (which was inspired by Chinese literati painting). This intimate landscape was painted with the artist’s fingers rather than with a brush. (Taiga employed a technique known as TARASHIKOMI, in which ink is applied over a still-wet surface).

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JAPANESE GARDEN. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)

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The GESTALT is not a spatio-temporal individual, it is ready to integrate itself into a constellation that spans space and time –but it is not free in regard to space and time, it is not aspatial atemporal, it only escapes the time and space conceived as a series of events themselves, it has a certain weight that doubtless forces it not in an objective site and in a point of objective time, but in a region, a domain, which it dominates, which it reigns, where it is everywhere present without one ever being able to say: it is here. It is transcedence.

— Maurice  Merleau-Ponty (1964)

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Vincent van Gogh, TREE ROOTS, 1890. Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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If you turn your light inwardly

you will find what is esoteric

within you.

— Huineng (638-713)

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walk during a few moments very consciously

In a certain direction;

simutaneously an infinite number

of living creatures in the universe

are moving in an infinite number of directions

— stanley brouwn ( 1969 … )

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Posted June 28, 2019

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Francois Chauveau (1613-1676), ALLEGORY OF HISTORY. Pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash, over traces of graphite –framing lines in pen and brown ink.

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You can’t discuss the ocean with a well-frog –he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect –he’s bound to a single season.

— Chuang-tzu (c. 369 – c. 286 BCE)

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The reality of the fantastic in Chuang-Tzu. It is never reduced to anything ideal. The untouchable is reality itself, and not something behind it.

— Elias Canetti (1970)

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When only knowledge is mentioned, action is included, and when only action is mentioned, knowledge is included.

— Wang Yangming (1472-1529)

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Ma Lin (ca. 1180 – after 1256), ORCHIDS. ALbum leaf –ink and colour on silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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ON THE DARK CLIFF

Chang Chen-hsien

(fl. Late 16th century – early

17th century)

On the dark cliff hundreds of weeds

     are withering

And yet the orchid bounds with

     vigor.

The noble person dwells in steep,

     isolated places.

He is indeed different from normal

     people.

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The being of two people can differ from one another more than the being of a mineral and of an animal.

— G. I. Gurdjieff (1949)

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The danger of a new world war still exists, and the people of all countries must be prepared.

— Mao Zedong (1970)

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Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought, integrated with the revolutionary MASSES in their hundreds of millions and with the concrete practice of PEOPLE’S REVOLUTION IN ALL COUNTRIES, will certainly bring forth inexhaustible revolutionary strength to smash the entire old world to smithereens!

Hardial Bains (1970)

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Tom Phillips (Beijing), THE GUARDIAN, 2016:

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a decade-long period of political and social chaos caused by Mao Zedong’s bid to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist party.

Its bewildering complexity and almost unfathomable brutality was such that to this day historians struggle to make sense of everything that occured during the period.

However, Mao’s decision to launch the “revolution” in May 1966 is now widely interpreted as an attempt to destroy enemies by unleashing the people on the party and urging them to purify its ranks.

When the mass mobilisation kicked off party newspapers depicted it as an epochal struggle that would inject new life into the socialist cause. “Like the red sun rising in the east, the unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is illuminating the land with its brilliant rays,” one editorial read.

In fact, the Cultural Revolution crippled the economy, ruined millions of lives and thrust China into 10 years of turmoil, bloodshed, hunger and stagnation….  An official party reckoning described it as a catastrophe which had caused “the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the country, and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic” in 1949.

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I knew the Classics, but disliked them.

— Mao Zedong (d. 1976)

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‘MIRROR-BLACK’-GLAZED PORCELAIN BOTTLE –Jingdezhen, 1970. (Photo: M. Cynog Evans.)

Inscription (in the style of calligrapher  Wang Xizhi, d. 361 CE) augmenting the vessel’s ‘classical’ orchid motif:

       VIRTUOUS, FRAGRANT, FLOURISHING

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Produced by combining oxides of iron and manganese with Chinese cobalt, the ‘mirror-black’ glaze was first developed in Jingdezden in the early 18th century. ]

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SHANGHAI DAILY, 2017:

With a history of more than 2,000 years … Jingdezhen, formerly called Changnan, was the pottery center in China.

Jingdezhen’s traditional technique of producing handmade porcelain has been included in China’s list of national intangible cultural heritages.

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Don’t keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

— Marshall McLuhan (1967)

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Posted June 20, 2019

GARDEN OF PEACEFUL RECLUSION

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Peace is the removal of inhibition and not its introduction. … It is the barrier against narrowness.

— Alfred North Whitehead (1933)

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