Alok's Zen calligraphy "The Empty Heart" served as a backdrop to Joan Sutherland Roshi exploring "Allegiance to the Most Beloved" at her Santa Fe retreat, Mar. 22-24. What is the most beloved? Is not-knowing and non-doing part of the "heart-mindfulness" for keep faith with it? Is the sinking well into "endarkenment" essential to the dharma of Enlightenment? Can we trust the creativity that self-arises from darkness into us and through us? What is the empty heart? Must not the most beloved be non-dual and embrace both darkness and light? See her essay on "What is Enlightenment?", BuddhaDharma, Spring 2013 issue: http://awakenedlife.org/images/pdfs/42-Sutherland_on_Enlightenment.pdf. For more on alok's "Satori Art": http://www.zencalligraphy.com/Satori-portrait.asp?PropertyID=2764&t=dg |
Zen Calligraphy
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
"Allegiance to the Most Beloved"
Friday, March 29, 2013
Peach Blossoms, Grafting Tar, and Longevity
It's Spring in Sedona and our old peach tree is beginning its
full bloom.
Beloved Raylene bound up the splits in the trunks with grafting tar and plumber's tape.
I tied and balanced the branches together.
Watered daily, and fertilized with two bags of manure and bone meal,
it's now vital and set to bear much fruit.
In Chinese art and culture, peaches symbolize longevity.
This body will be 75 in a few month.
I am blessed with fresh new years to fulfill my vow--
to celebrate everything and to set endless heartaches to rest.
With love, nurture, and awareness, Nature and our human lives are redeemable and new-able!
Selah
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Zen Retreat
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Packing goodies for workshop
Packing to teach "Zen Calligraphy: the Creativity of Non-doing" at Omega Institute this weekend! 12 rolled up scrolls of Alok and Raylene's paintings, 30 sets of student brushes made by the best brush factory in China, porcelain chopstick racks to serve as brush racks, black wool felt from India to reflect the ink back into the xuan paper, 6 27" X 54" xuan paper for each student, Alok's and Raylene's portfolios, Puer tea from Alok's home province Yunnan... Yum
http://www.eomega.org/workshops/zen-calligraphy
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Zen as Art, a meditative video
https://vimeo.com/44489611
A meditative video, created by Raylene Abbott, on the Zen Calligraphic Art of Alok Hsu Kwang-han. Alok teaches Zen as Art and Art as Zen through exhibitions of Satori Art; Zen Calligraphic Portraiture; and workshops on "The Creativity of Non-doing". He sees creativity as supportive of our healing and awakening, and our healing and awakening as supportive of our creativity! His website: zencalligraphy.com.
Monday, June 4, 2012
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