![]() ![]() The word karma is from Sanskrit, where, fittingly, it refers to one's work as well as one's fate it begins appearing in English writing in the early 1800s. The point is be careful about how you interact with others: everything you do decides what you have to contend with in transmigration. On the other hand, if you are not nice to others, you will get your just deserts in some form in the near or distant future as well as in the next life through bad karma. If you are kind to others, the belief is that they will be kind in return, but more importantly, that means you will experience good karma in your present and next life. Fran Golden, The Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2017Ī fundamental aspect of Buddhism is the teaching that you are responsible for your own life and your future circumstances (as well as your future lives)-whether you experience happiness, misery, etc.-and that your actions and behavior can bring good or bad karma. It's people-watching nirvana even before you wander into the bars, clubs and restaurants…. My favorite party scene is outdoors on brick-lined East 4th Street, a block of renovated buildings connected by strings of twinkling lights. A person who has gained insight into the true nature of existence in the cosmos and has achieved nirvana is known as an arhat, or an arahant, in some schools of Buddhism.īy the end of the 19th century, people were using nirvana figuratively for any secular state or place of great happiness and peace. In nirvana, a person also not only enters a transcendent state of freedom of all negativity but breaks free of the religion's beliefs in the continuous cycle of birth, death, and rebirth and the effects of karma-the force created by one's actions that is to determine what that person's next life will be like. Once these things are vanquished, peace, tranquility, and enlightenment are said to be fully experienced ignorance dissolves and the truth becomes fully known. The word is a borrowing from Sanskrit that means "the act of extinguishing" and, in Buddhism, it refers to a state in which desire and one's conscious attachment to things in secular life (or, in particular, the negative emotions these desires/attachments bring about) are extinguished through disciplined meditation. I see within their being the sun, the clouds, the soil, the wind, all of the natural phenomena that came together and created the conditions for the leaves’ birth and eventual decay.English readers of religious philosophy were first enlightened on the Buddhist concept of nirvana in the early 19th century. To me, the leaves, shed routinely by the trees, speak of the eternal cycle of life. That is the dialogue I wish for the viewers to engage in with the installation. The koans are meant to make one wonder and to answer that wondering with the truest expression of one’s own nature. The title comes from the Zen koan, “what’s the sound of one hand clapping?” In Zen Buddhism, the masters present the disciples with koans or cryptic phrases that encouraged them to reflect upon the meaning of life and the true nature of reality. The interaction, interconnection and activation of the space around are a very important consideration. The 520 leaves, suspended individually from copper wires, hover inches away from the floor. ![]() The installation, titled the sound of one hand clapping, attempts to create a still, contemplative space. A flower carries the essence of a seed and is already moving towards becoming dust. ![]() They reminded me that all phenomena are in a state of transition. When I first came across these withered leaves that had holes strewn all over them, they spoke to me of that in-between state of being and not-being. ![]()
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