tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41006182011-10-21T07:15:34.906-07:00Zen: 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.Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310823321065292005-12-11T06:20:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:20:23.326-08:00The Dharma Gate of Beauty, by Soetsu Yanagi, trans. Bernard LeachComments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310758790600082005-12-11T06:19:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:19:18.796-08:002 & 3Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310713229150212005-12-11T06:18:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:18:33.230-08:004 & 5Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310635970529722005-12-11T06:17:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:17:15.976-08:006 & 7Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310571500660012005-12-11T06:16:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:16:11.506-08:008 & 9Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310394287927542005-12-11T06:13:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:13:14.293-08:0010 & 11Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310357602016142005-12-11T06:12:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:12:37.606-08:0012 & 13Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134310257385422882005-12-11T06:10:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:10:57.390-08:0014 & 15Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134309843571207782005-12-11T06:04:00.000-08:002005-12-11T16:03:25.873-08:00Pages 16 & 17Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134309702147655342005-12-11T06:01:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:07:24.060-08:00Pages 18 & 19Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1134309599580109612005-12-11T05:59:00.000-08:002005-12-11T06:06:11.440-08:00Pages 20 & 21Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1132064804407052912005-11-15T06:23:00.000-08:002005-11-15T06:26:44.413-08:00 My Wood Block Print for the Mashiko community cultural festival. It is the Taiko Bash (Red Drum bridge) from Sumiyoshi taisha (Grand Shinto Shrine.) Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1129646603311899722005-10-18T07:43:00.000-07:002005-10-18T07:43:23.346-07:00On 2548th Buddha's BirthdayKorean Buddhism Basis of Japanese BuddhismTracing Its Characteristics and History Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1129436968471164912005-10-15T21:29:00.000-07:002005-10-15T21:31:26.076-07:00WITH GOD ON OUR SIDEOh, my name it ain't nothin',My age it means less.The country I come fromIs called the Midwest.I's taught and brought up thereThe laws to abideThat the land that I live inHas God on its side.Oh, the history books tell it,They tell it so well:The cavalries charged,The Indians fell.The cavalries charged,The Indians died --Oh, the country was young,With God on its side.The Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1129435627765117522005-10-15T21:07:00.000-07:002005-10-15T21:07:07.770-07:00Infared Andromeda from JPL.Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1129435194624244632005-10-15T20:59:00.000-07:002005-10-15T20:59:54.663-07:00Click on image above for music against "Elective War." Dylan's Masters of War: http://freevision.org/AAMusic/Masters_of_War_Bob_Dylan.mp3Comments? write: togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1124250545405029082005-08-16T20:49:00.000-07:002005-08-16T20:49:05.433-07:00Firing today. This is the kiln offering altar.Want to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1123054157656986622005-08-03T00:29:00.000-07:002005-08-03T00:29:17.670-07:00Shiko Munakata. I think he was the greatest genius of the original Mingei group.Want to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1121250265381882712005-07-13T03:24:00.000-07:002005-07-13T03:24:25.386-07:00The Mingei Spirit, By Warren MacKenzieWant to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1121250152323766172005-07-13T03:22:00.000-07:002005-07-13T03:22:32.326-07:00Page 2Want to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1121375259718889742005-07-13T03:21:00.000-07:002005-07-14T14:57:33.620-07:00Page 3Want to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1121250039337532512005-07-13T03:20:00.000-07:002005-07-13T03:20:39.343-07:00Page 4Want to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1121249970337352732005-07-13T03:19:00.000-07:002005-07-13T03:19:30.343-07:00Page 5Want to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1121185629277508022005-07-12T09:27:00.000-07:002005-07-12T09:27:09.293-07:00 In time the popularity of Wabi style tea increased, and Wabi was further developed by Sen no Rikkyu (1522-91), who would become the most legendary tea master. Rikkyu's tea ceremony is remembered in part for his introduction of koraimono (Korean objects, which he purported held qualities markedly different from those of Japanese and Chinese arts) and in his promotion of the new pottery known as Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1120645399742293072005-07-06T03:23:00.000-07:002005-07-06T03:23:19.763-07:00I 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.Want to post comments? Write me: Togeika@gmail.comLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1120645041940009492005-07-06T03:17:00.000-07:002005-07-06T03:17:21.976-07:00Francis 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 Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1116332009388206402005-05-17T05:13:00.000-07:002005-05-17T05:16:40.243-07:00BILL MOYERS: "The story I've come to share with you goes to the core of our belief that the quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined. I can tell this story because I've been living it. As Dr. Wilson said, it's been in the news this week, including more attacks on a single journalist, yours truly, by the right wing media and their friends at the Corporation for PublicLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1116289410729638722005-05-16T17:23:00.000-07:002005-05-16T17:29:49.760-07:00Interesting overview of Zen. I especially liked the encapsulation of Dogen's thought in the nine points below:These are nine points that can be extracted from Dogen's thought:1. Identity of self and others. Zazen is the complete realization of self, identifying with others. He said: "To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to beLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1115677949979019342005-05-09T15:32:00.000-07:002005-05-09T15:32:30.006-07:00This is one of the last texts I studied with Dainin Katagiri Roshi.Lee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1113923542544981442005-04-19T08:12:00.000-07:002005-04-19T08:12:22.543-07:00"I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. " --John Updike, essay for the "This I Believe" Project.Lee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1113490561748144832005-04-14T07:56:00.000-07:002005-04-14T07:56:01.746-07:00Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/Beyond_Vietnam.pdfLee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1112576544645730932005-04-03T18:02:00.000-07:002005-04-03T18:02:24.646-07:00The Book Of TeaLee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1112576330483331822005-04-03T17:58:00.000-07:002005-04-03T17:58:50.483-07:00Not as well known as The Book Of Tea.Lee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1112180415402419582005-03-30T03:00:00.000-08:002005-03-30T03:00:15.403-08:00Pure Land and Soto TermsLee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1111877343199106842005-03-26T14:48:00.000-08:002005-03-26T14:49:03.200-08:00Ryokan's Precepts of Right SpeechTake care not to:talk too muchtalk too fasttalk without being asked totalk gratuitiouslytalk with your handstalk about worldly affairstalk back rudelyarguesmile condescendingly at others' wordsuse elegant expressionsboastavoid speaking directlyspeak with a knowing airjump from topic to topicuse fancy wordsspeak of past events that cannot be changedspeak like a Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1110850213546548582005-03-14T17:30:00.000-08:002005-03-14T17:33:59.830-08:00Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now. And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues, You know feeling good was good enough for me, Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee. Janis Joplin on Shunyata. Click on lyrics for full song lyricscopyright 2005 Lee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1110765936153525742005-03-13T18:05:00.000-08:002005-03-13T18:14:20.030-08:00We Are all Made Of Star Stuff. Check out the images at the Chandra X-Ray Telescope!copyright 2005 Lee LoveLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1110682520038972162005-03-12T18:54:00.000-08:002005-03-12T18:55:20.040-08:00Wendell Berry's Standing By Words was out of print for 15 years, but has been recently republished:http://www.shoemakerhoard.com/catalog/words.html or amazon:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593760558/a quote:“Two epidemic illnesses of our time—upon both of which virtual industries of cures have been founded—are the disintegration of communities and the disintegration of persons. Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1110642752756416502005-03-12T07:51:00.000-08:002005-03-12T07:52:32.756-08:00"What level of experience do we achieve by running a hand over a Formica counter, gripping the rim of a stainless steel mixing bowl, or touching the door of a refrigerator? Even materials that have an intrinsic tactile surface, such as wood, are rendered neutral by being permeated with plastic and isolated from our tactile sensors. As a result, we are deprived of one of the basic senses with Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1110607115227670562005-03-11T21:58:00.000-08:002005-03-11T21:58:35.230-08:00Getting beyond our funk of hubris.... It is a lack of humility in our modern age that keeps us from acknowledging our influences. Rather than simply seeing tradition as something we only take from, Hamada saw the responsibility of the maker to make something original, but genuine, that we give back to the tradition. In his words:"Just to give oneself up to folk art will never do. One Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1074435593667539802005-03-05T19:32:00.000-08:002005-03-05T19:32:30.233-08:00A Minnesota Potter, In Mashiko, JapanLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1110079273887642242005-03-05T19:19:00.000-08:002005-03-05T19:21:13.940-08:00Tenzo kyokun:Instructions for the Tenzoby Eihei DogenTranslated by Yasuda Joshu roshiand Anzan Hoshin sensei(published in Cooking Zen, Great Matter Publications, 1996)The text was copied from the White Wind Zen Community Website at http://www.wwzc.orgFrom ancient times communities of the practice of the Way of Awake Awareness have had six office holders who, as disciples of the Buddha, guide the Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1074594269478613992004-01-20T02:24:00.000-08:002004-01-20T02:26:27.263-08:00Testing!Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1074440805214221782004-01-18T07:46:00.000-08:002004-01-18T07:48:40.280-08:00
Dangerous Religion
George W. Bush's theology of empire.
by Jim Wallis
Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1074436335324555002004-01-18T06:32:00.000-08:002004-01-18T06:37:44.950-08:00
Kizaemon Tea-Bowl, Korea, 16th Century (used for Japanese Tea Ceremony, 17th Century).
In his book The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty, Soetsu Yanagi discusses the The Kizaemon Tea-bowl, a bowl made in Korea in the 16th century and selected by Japanese Tea masters in the early 17th century to be used as an artifact in the Tea ceremony:
This single Tea-bowl is considered to beLee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100618.post-1074435814953042732004-01-18T06:23:00.000-08:002004-01-18T06:25:30.263-08:00A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America by Wendell Berry
[In the May/June 2002 issue of Sierra Magazine, writer Wendell Berry called himself "a conservationist and a farmer, a wilderness advocate and an agrarian." In this abridged version of an essay from Orion Magazine, Berry, a former chair of the Sierra Club's Kentucky chapter, discusses "kinds Lee Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com