I’m not going to be able to describe the Buddhist concept of prajñā with any adequacy. Yet I will try, as the fundamental precept speaks to our Transparent Drawing purposes. If I had to summarize my understanding of prajñā in one word, that word would be knowledge. Common terms applied to prajñā are wisdom, insight, and discriminating […]
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25Jun
2018
FOUNDATION OF MINDFULNESS
2018
I really like the way Buddhist thought applies to Transparent Drawing. In the Seven Factors of Awakening, Buddhism has primary goals of integration, holism, complete understanding, renunciation of petty facets of the real world, etc. And these are our goals. So it is this similarity which I find inspirational and indeed a path to explore […]
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15Apr
2018
SECOND DOOR OF LIBERATION
2018
In Buddhism, the Second Door of Liberation is signlessness / animata. As we defined in the previous Sign Page, sign means an appearance of an object that is in our perception. An object that we perceive is a sign. An object or building depicted in Representational Spacetime is a sign. That is because representation yields […]
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11Dec
2017
REPRESENTATION AND MEANING
2017
Buddhist theory or practice tells us that at the root of things, forms are empty. That is to say, as one proceeds toward enlightenment, we work to separate the meaning, or content, from form. Two words commonly used in this tradition to describe meaning are narrative and story. (Wright. pp 142-152) As an example of […]
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