Zen: Craft As A Way.

I was first brought to a serious interest in Pottery, when I realized that the founder of the Zen school I study, brought the first Tenmoku bowl to Japan from Song China. This reinforced my interest in Mingei and the work of Hamada Shoji, Bernard Leach and Yanagi Soetsu, as brought to my attention by the Minnesota potter, Warren MacKenzie. To me, there is a lot to learn about living an "awakened life" in these modern times, from the work and lives of Dogen Zenji and the founders of Mingei.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

I heard an interesting program on KQED today. The makers of the movie: Mana, Beyond belief and also the author of The Biology of Belief. Both of these seem to parallel a non-mechanistic/non-materialist approach to creativity.
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Francis Bacon defined the mission of modern science shortly after the onset of the scientific revolution (1543).? Accordingly, the purpose of science was "to dominate and control Nature."? To accomplish that goal, scientists had to first acquire knowledge of what "controls" an organism?s structure and function (behavior).? Concepts founded in the principles of Newtonian physics defined the experimental approach to this quest.? These principles stipulate that the Universe is a "physical mechanism" comprised of parts (matter), there is no attention given to the invisible "energy."? In this world view, all that matters is "matter."? Consequently, modern science is preoccupied with materialism.
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