tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32263838181015003672024-03-06T00:35:38.786-08:00Zen Calligraphic ArtAlok Hsu Kwang-hanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000785421925920185noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226383818101500367.post-25713075293484536522013-04-02T11:39:00.001-07:002013-04-02T11:47:16.418-07:00"Allegiance to the Most Beloved"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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? <br />See her essay on "What is Enlightenment?", BuddhaDharma, Spring 2013 issue: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://awakenedlife.org/images/pdfs/42-Sutherland_on_Enlightenment.pdf. </span></span><br />
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Alok Hsu Kwang-hanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000785421925920185noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226383818101500367.post-32100452227771424702013-03-29T12:22:00.001-07:002013-03-29T13:02:47.676-07:00Peach Blossoms, Grafting Tar, and Longevity<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">It's Spring in Sedona and our old peach tree is beginning its </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">full bloom. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Beloved Raylene bound up the splits in the trunks </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">with grafting tar and plumber's tape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I tied and balanced the branches together</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Watered daily, and fertilized with two bags of manure and bone meal, </span></div>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">it's now vital and set to bear much </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">fruit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">In Chinese art and culture, peaches symbolize longevity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My health is very good, lipids excellent and heart working well.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This body will be 75 in a few month.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I am blessed with fresh new years to fulfill my vow--</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">to celebrate everything and to set endless heartaches to rest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">With love, nurture, and awareness, Nature and our human lives </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">are redeemable and new-able!</span></span></div>
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Alok Hsu Kwang-hanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000785421925920185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226383818101500367.post-87568175518847691172013-03-26T22:24:00.000-07:002013-03-26T22:24:01.566-07:00Zen Retreat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joan Sutherland Roshi chose the title, "Allegiance to the Most Beloved" for her Zen Retreat in Santa Fe this past weekend. Raylene and I brought 6 Zen calligraphies to hang in the meditation hall. Here are two: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Dancing Guanyin" by Raylene on the left and my painting of the Koan,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Does Dog Have Buddha Nature?" on the right. Below them is the large gong that moved us from sound to silence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Alok Hsu Kwang-hanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000785421925920185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226383818101500367.post-9788765711838370352012-06-22T20:08:00.002-07:002012-06-22T20:10:44.522-07:00Zen as Art, a meditative video<a href="https://vimeo.com/44489611" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/44489611</a><br />
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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: <a href="http://www.zencalligraphy.com/"><span class="s1"><b>zencalligraphy.com</b></span></a>.</div>
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<br /></div>Alok Hsu Kwang-hanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000785421925920185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226383818101500367.post-26560728253996997742012-06-04T11:55:00.002-07:002012-06-04T11:55:23.410-07:00First post testingThis is the first blog post for Zen Calligraphic artAlok Hsu Kwang-hanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000785421925920185noreply@blogger.com1