Dogen
Thinking/not-thinking
Simultaneity, 2005, acrylic on paper, 22.5" x 30"
Not-thinking/thinking
Flowing Upwards, 2011, acrylic on paper mounted on board, 28" x 41.5"
The Intimacy of Picture/Reality
Paintings by Richard Stodart
Words by Hee-Jin Kim
7" x 10," 84 pages
Publisher: Fourth Lloyd Productions 2013
ISBN: 978-0-9889391-1-0
$39.95
22 color plates
A quest with cast off/totally exerted delusion and enlightenment as orientational and cotemporal foci of dream, in and through the wisdom of emptiness (qua right-thinking/nonthinking), free of mystical coincidence or a substantive order beyond them.
"The relationship between delusion and enlightenment is such that one is not the simple negation nor absence of the other; nor does one precede the other. In this respect they are "foci" rather than "antitheses" or "polarities" within the structures and dynamics of realization (genjo). "Permeable" rather than incommensurable," their boundaries, though provisional, are never erased. Delusion is constantly illumined and clarified by enlightenment in the salvific process. Enlightenment is never free of values and meanings, frustrations and disappointments any more than delusion is. The human condition is such that even if we overcome delusion, we cannot eradicate it.
Accordingly, the differences between delusion and enlightenment are never erased in their intimacy. As such, no hiatus exists between them,"
—Hee-Jin Kim, Dōgen On Meditation and Thinking
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