![]() The temples and monasteries that I visited are widely know, even revered by some. Rather, “practice is about seeing the mind in all things, even the most commonplace/everyday/simple/mundane. ![]() However, such imaginations are not Rosenblum’s purpose in creating these images. The images are small squares of wall, thus converting the age and detail of stone, glaze, cracks, woodgrain, weathering into images that call to mind camera-less Polaroids, blurred landscapes, and gesture paintings. This presence, and their non-objective forms (and perhaps these are the same thing), are captured in Paul Rosenblum‘s photographs of temple walls in Japan.Ī wall is also symbol of renunciation: the Buddhist meditator has turned away from the world, quite literally. The walls of ancient Zen temples and monasteries have been the companions and unyielding support for the practice of countless practitioners. ![]() Zen Buddhist practice is sometimes called “wall-gazing” meditation, a reference both to Bodhidharma - the sect’s purported founder’s - and his nine years meditating while facing a monastery (or, cave) wall, but also to Zen’s eschewing of meditation aids like paintings and statutes. ![]()
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