Soul Gardens is a community public art project led by W2 Community Media Arts that investigates the cultural history of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) as told through stories of food, gardening, and community. A collaboration between five muralists and five artist researchers the project draws heavily on individual and shared narratives within founding DTES cultural […]
The Public Domain Review offers a series of images from “an eighteenth-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the Buddha and Bodhisattva figures.” Original text at the Getty. [link]
Street art in Texcoco de Mora, Mexico. Photo by SAChilango.
“The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know. To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss their source. At the moment of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond appearances and emptiness.”
These words were written almost 1,500 years ago in China.
On Monday morning while we took a visit to Leake Street to see what the weekend may have left us, we were exceptionally delighted to see this most interesting collaboration by Hannah Adamaszek and Olivier Roubieu had survived the Sunday night untouched in order for us to appreciate its beauty and share it here with you […]
by SARAH HUA 25 May 2016 Houston, Texas, May 25, 2016—Asia Society Texas Center is pleased to welcome back to Houston the Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery. From August 18-21, the monks will construct a sand mandala and perform ceremonies in the Center’s Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery. During this ritual, millions of grains […]
Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? The master doesn’t seek fulfillment. Not seeking…
Source: Zen, Tao, Chan
Where the ocean breeze sifts through our garden
And the old walnut trees drape over our cottage home
Where you can lay and listen to a Dragon spitting in fountain
Rocking you into a sleepy bliss
And there isn’t a single car going by
Where my cat hunts all day or sunbathes in the grass
And I can take a break from the city
Lush and green is as far as the eye can see; mountains along the ocean
Where my youthful imagination bloomed
And where I was when responsibility didn’t exist
The rain tatters along the vast leaves and flowers often in this rainforest
I’m here to say hello
And also say goodbye.
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