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Posted January 22, 2021

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Jeong-Ho Lee, Bloomberg News, 15 January, 2021

North Korea held its second major military parade in three months [on 14 January, 2021] … showing off nuclear advances including a new submarine-launched ballistic missile.

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The parade [broadcast on television] featured thousands of goose-stepping soldiers. Using a multitude of cameras, including shots with drones, the program also showed throngs of North Korean citizens waving flags and flowers to columns of tanks and armoured vehicles [and ballistic missiles] while an orchestra performed throughout the festivities].

North Korea has the world’s “strongest weapons,” a news presenter said … adding, the “power of North Korea will reach to the universe.”

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” … ‘Just this is …’.” (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)
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The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not the numerical one.

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Kajita Hanko, Beauty At The Teahouse Garden Water Bowl [Autumn] – polychrome woodblock print of the ‘kuchi-e’ type – 1901.
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Decentred Frames 去中心框架

January 14, 2021

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Back To Beyond

Mokurai

(2021)

We have so much difficulty

imagining nothing.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

thereabouts known to be ‘for now’

not ‘other than’ … but (then) what if

furthermore is less than just so?

will a ‘touch’ of circumstantial

motions move ‘here’ (under) ‘there’

… before their ‘inclusion’ concludes?

can some ‘stasis’ of arrangement

provoke a ‘sudden’ … (if) foreign …

‘flashing’ (forward) … ‘on’ … on beyond?

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“… ‘Deeper Than Depth’ … (Width … Length = Distance) …” Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.
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The beautiful landscape as we know belongs to those who are like it.
— Muso Soseki (d. 1351)
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Decentred Frames 去中心框架

Posted January 7, 2020

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Near-by Or Not

Mokurai

31.12.20.

that ‘this’ (region) could

be revealed (just now):

a known momentum

not (then) being led (on)

… or (say) back to front

(If suited to when):

know that some ‘same’ sense

is there (just outside)

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bill bissett, moon, acrylik, 2020.
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Monk Nichiren Calming the Stormy Sea – woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, ca. 1835.Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Curatorial Record:
The story of the life of Nichiren (1222-1282), the iconoclastic founder of the sect of Buddhism that bears his name, has inspired legions of his followers to the present day. Kuniyoshi’s print captures a dramatic moment of the priest’s biography – the scene of a vision of the sect’s main devotion, the invocation “Praise to the Sutra of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma [Namu Myoho Renge Kyo],” in the ocean waves as Nichiren travels to exile on the island of Sado in 1272.
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” … ‘Motion(less)’ …”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)

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Every existing thing from the very beginning

Has always had the mark of quiescence.

— Lotus Sutra

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Psychic Ecology 心神生態

Posted December 30, 2020

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Zen master Eihei Dogen

(d. 1253)

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.

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Nitobe3

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As long as thought is free, hence vital, nothing is compromised. When it ceases being so, all the other oppressions are also possible, and already realized, so that any action becomes culpable, every life threatened.

— Gilles Deleuze (1970)

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Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

28 December 2020

US President Donald Trump has signed off on the legislation that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to chose a successor to

the Dalai Lama, a move described by the Tibetan government-in-exile as a “powerful message of hope and justice” to Tibetans living in Tibet.

The United States Congress had passed the Tibet Policy and Support Act last week, provoking howls of protest from the Chinese foreign ministry that calls the legislation as an attempt to meddle in China’s affairs.

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The legislation, which calls for the establishment of a US consulate in Tibet’s main city of Lhasa, also asserts the absolute right of Tibetans to choose a successor to the 14th Dalai Lama and the preservation of Tibet’s environment.

The US law aims to build an international coalition to ensure that China does not interfere with the selection of the next Dalai comes against the background of Beijing appointing its own Panchen Lama after arresting a boy Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in May 1995 who was identified by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second-most senior figure in Tibetan Buddhism’s largest school. Human rights groups had called the Panchen Lama as the world’s youngest political prisoner. He was just six when he disappeared.

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India had settled the Dalai Lama in April 1959 … in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala where he has been living in exile after escaping from Tibet when it was invaded by the Chinese. There are over 80,000 Tibetans living in exile in India; 150,000 more around the world.

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Milarepa, 15th – 16th century, Tibet. Silver, gold, semi-precious stones. H: 4 3/8 in. Newark Museum.

Curatorial Record:

Tibetan Buddhist master Milarepa (1040-1123) is best known for composing 100,000 sacred songs in various caves throughout the Himalayas – an accomplishment suggested by the gesture of holding his hand to his ear.

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Gesture is the living energy which propels this global whole that is the Anthropos.

— Marcel Jousse (1974)

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Psychic Ecology 心神生態

Posted December 23, 2020

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bill bissett

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” … ‘Self-Location’ … Nitobe Memorial Garden …”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)

This Oribe (a permanently placed lantern, sited within a teahouse garden) has remained ‘unlit’ since the completion and public opening of the Nitobe Memorial Garden, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), in 1960.

The lantern was vitalized (with candlelight) on 22 December 2020 – as part of an ongoing CAUSA Curatorial Research Project.

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Buddha In Glory

Rainer Maria Rilke

(d. 1926)

Center of all centers, core of all cores,

almond self-enclosed and growing sweet –

all this universe, to the furthest stars

and beyond them is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;

your vast shell reaches into endless space,

and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.

Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,

blazing high above your head.

But in you is the presence that

will be, when all the stars are dead.

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Lunar Opposite

Mokurai

Sudden occurence:

(still there) the ‘unmeasured’

… where noise means nothing

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Chan [Zen]

master Dogen

(1200 – 1253)

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening.

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It’s not enough to integrate, you must also disintegrate.

— Eugène Ionesco (1951)

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To introduce people to a different world, to encounter the miracle of being, that is important.

— Eugène Ionesco (1984)

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Psychic Ecology 心神生態

Posted December 18, 2020

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To speak from the perspective of birth, there are no things that are not long lived; to deduce from the perspective of death, there are no things that do not die young.
— Ruan Ji (210 – 263 BCE)

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THE NEW YORK TIMES

Steven Lee Myers and Kenneth Chang, December 16, 2020:

CHINA BRINGS MOON ROCKS TO EARTH, AND A NEW ERA OF COMPETITION TO SPACE
China may have been a latecomer to the moon, but when its capsule full of lunar rocks and soil returned to Earth early Thursday, it set the stage for a new space race over the coming decades. This time, it will be a competition over resources on the moon that could propel deeper space exploration.

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” ‘Bright Moon’ (Intrinsic Effect) … Street Level … “. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)
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In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.
— Vladimir Odoevsky (d. 1869)
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Orderly and Disorderly

Mokurai

26.11. 20.

DADA—and for one instant

everyone awakens from the daily

somnabulism which he calls living.

— Theo van Doesburg

conditional criticality

can be one thing or nothing or both

in a sense most suitable (for now)

to being ready to beware of

not being (thus) the mere alignment

that is not (yet) some (mere) end ending

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UN News, 16 December 2020:

CHINA UNDERMINING HUMAN RIGHTS BY LOCKING UP HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS, UN EXPERT SAYS
Mary Lawlor, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, said lawyers in China continue to be “charged, detained, disappeared and tortured,” years on from a law enacted as an apparent national security measure.
“Since the so-called ‘709 crackdown’ began on 9 July 2015, the profession of human rights lawyer has been effectively criminalized in China,” Mrs. Lawlor said in the statement.
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There was an inherent contradiction in targeting lawyers under the pretext of protecting the rule of law, the statement said.

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Knowing is delusion. Not knowing is not distinguishing.

– Nan-ch’üan P’u-yüan, Chan Buddhist master (748-835 CE)

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Posted December 11, 2020

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Shitao, Outing to Zhang Gong’s Grotto, circa 1700, China. Handscroll – ink and colour on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Curatorial Record:

Zhang Gong’s Grotto was once the abode of Zhang Daoling (Zhang Gong, 2nd century CE), a Daoist patriarch. According to Daoist beliefs, such grottoes are wellsprings of nature’s creative force and offer the potential for rejuvenation and renewal.

In a long poem at the end of the scroll, Shitao acknowledges the mystical Daoist attributes of the cave and suggests that through his art he has captured both the cave and its creative force.

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” … ‘Between the Quick and the Slow’ …” (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)
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Sitting or standing, working or sleeping, probe tirelessly to your deepest self with the question “What is my own Mind?”
— Zen master Bassui Tokusho (d. 1386)
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Methodology

Mokurai

04.12.20.

According to an ancient saying,

those who have not yet attained

enlightenment should study the

intent rather than the expression,

while those who have attained

enlightenment should study the

expression rather than the intent.

— Muso Soseki

was it there (when)

at some time or

(even) as if

to have been so

… shall it be said

that far away

… and (just) before

… a ‘no’ longer

continued to

be counted (on)

as ‘an’ again (?)

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Kamo no Chomei
(1212)

The current of the flowing river does not cease, and yet the water is not the same water as before. The foam that floats on stagnant pools, now vanishing, now forming, never stays the same for long. So, too, it is with the people and dwellings of the world.

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Alfred Caldwell
(1967)

Of course what lies about us everywhere is a ruin that we do not truly see, because we have always seen it. It is a ruin of defaced and broken stones, with grave images of bankrupt gods overturned on a marble stair. There is a door ajar in an ancient alley, and someone passes fugitive and anonymous. Nay, it is a Paleolithic kitchen midden, a junkyard of used parts like the automobile dumps, both fact and symbol.

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Posted December 4, 2020

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Daoist immortal Li Tieguai receiving a visitor – unidentified artist (China, 15th–16th century). Hanging scroll – ink and colour on silk. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Curatorial Record:

Legend states that the Daoist immortal Li Tieguai assumed his disheveled form accidentally. One of the master’s abilities was to send his spirit on journeys while his body lay dormant. On one of these occasions, Li was gone so long that his assistant mistook the master for dead and cremated him. Returning to find his body missing, Li appropriated the body of a local mendicant who walked with an iron crutch and was thereafter known as Li Tieguai (Iron-Crutch Li).

This scroll depicts Li (‘wild’ in appearance) observing the (‘formally’ dressed) official who has come to pay respects.

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Top lawyers to Define Ecocide to Enforce International Justice

EcoWatch (New York)

1 December 2020

An expert panel of top international and environmenral lawyers have begun working on a legal definition of “genocide” with the goal of making mass ecological damage an enforceable international crime on par with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Assembled by the Stop Genocide Foundation at the request of several Swedish parliamentarians, the initiative to criminalize the destruction of ecosystems at the global level has already garnered support from European countries as well as small island nations highly vulnerable to rising sea levels.

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The November launch date of the project coincided with the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, where the terms “crimes against humanity” and “genocide” were coined.

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Li Tieguai under a Pine Tree … Ming Dynasty, circa 1500. Hanging scroll (now mounted on panel) – ink and colour on silk. Freer Art Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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” … ‘Embodiment’ (Li Tieguai) …”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)

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We exit into life;

We enter into death.

— Lao Tzu (sixth century BCE)

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Every trace of intelligent and stupid men, of the beautiful and ugly, successful and unsuccessful, right and wrong, is effaced. And whether quickly or slowly is the only point of difference.

— Yang Zhu (440 – 360 BCE?)

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bill bissett, the mewsik uv time – acrilik on canvas, 2020.
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Nicholas Poussin, Study for ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ (commissioned in 1639 by Cardinal Guilio Rospogliosi). Pen, brown ink & wash on paper. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

Curatorial Record:

The picture is a moral allegory on the subjection of all human life to the rule of time. The dance is being performed by the lyre of Father Time and two putti are seen playing with an hourglass and blowing bubbles respectively. It depicts a circle of man’s future with the allegorical figures of Poverty, Industry, Riches and Pleasure forming a circular movement. Above, the Sun is driving his chariot through the zodiac.

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The Nonsense of Narcissism

Mokurai

27.11.20

The tables turn thanks to spirit.

— Francis Picabia

if looking back requires an inner voice

… is that (then) meditation in motion …?

otherwise reflected (once and for all)

… when does it start … the gone/going/gone on …

to when once (an elsewhere) in/of itself

(there) will make some sense of a becoming

that is not a (repeat) repetition …?

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Psychic Ecology 心神生態

Posted November 27, 2020

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Telegram [excerpt] sent from Albert Einstein to Theodore Roosevelt, following Hiroshima/Nagaski bombings:

THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE ATOM HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING SAVE OUR MODES OF THINKING AND WE THUS DRIFT TOWARD UNPARALLELED CATASTROPHE.

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” … ‘Something’…”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)

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The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

— Zen master Hakuun Yasutani (1885-1973)

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Moment of Going

Mokurai

13.07.20

certainly not now … no? …

then when does ‘so becoming’

make some new sense of

‘heretofore’ … and … as if

forgetting to have found a

glimpse of the still remote

‘reach’ … one will ask if any

‘flight to a moon’ may ever …

ever … be more than ‘just now’

gone … once again not again …

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The Guardian (London), 11 February 2016 …

Physicists have announced the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.

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The announcrment is the climax of a century of speculation, 50 years of trial and error, and 25 years perfecting a set of instruments so sensitive they could identify a distortion of one atomic nucleus across a 4km strip of laserbeam and mirror. The phenemenon detected was the collision of two black holes.

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Japan’s largest Ginko Tree – believed to be over one thousand years old – was lit up on the evening of 26 November 2020.

Designated as a natural treasure, it is 22 meters in girth and 31 meters high.

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Orderly and Disorderly

Mokurai

26.11. 20.

DADA—and for one instant

everyone awakens from the daily

somnabulism which he calls living.

— Theo van Doesburg

conditional criticality

can be one thing or nothing or both

in a sense most suitable (for now)

to being ready to beware of

not being (thus) the mere alignment

that is not (yet) some (mere) end ending

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Specific Frequency 具體頻率

Posted November 20, 2020

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” … ‘Surround’…”. (Photo: M. Cynog-Evans.)

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Marshall McLuhan

(1971)

Electronic media literally translated us into angels. On the phone, “we are there” and “they are here”, and so with Radio and TV. Angelism and the occult alike are the by-products of electronics. Ecology is incidental to them.

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‘Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper’ (Sterling Hayden) – in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a black comedy film by Stanley Kubrick (1964).

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