see also:
whats more: Fukushima second explosion | Occupy Nuclear
whats up: Remembering Fukushima And What You Can Do | Risky Reactors & Deadly Waste
original series: whats more: fukushima art
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
fukushima one year later
see also:
whats more: Fukushima second explosion | Occupy Nuclear
whats up: Remembering Fukushima And What You Can Do | Risky Reactors & Deadly Waste
original series: whats more: fukushima art
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
barrel gurdy
new top view, 2/20/12
- an idea that i've been working on for awhile
- there is now a page on it here at whats more
whats more: barrel gurdy
"it uses a hand-cranked wheel to bow playing strings and drones like a hurdy gurdy, but is played with a slide like a Vichitra Veena (as in video) - no gurdy keybox..."
misc set ups & notes
thinking about how to set things up... things to consider
guitar gurdy by Graeme McCormack
what next: HURDY GURDY - Recycled Guitar | AntiQuated Strings | Lute-backed
see also > what next: cello strings, harmonics & spectograms
whats more: barrel gurdy | what next - label: Hurdy Gurdy
Friday, December 9, 2011
Strong Children Japan
Portraits of Japanese children and young people living with the ongoing consequences of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear accident, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11th 2011. The images and words are made by the children, combined with their portrait by Japan-based English artist Geoff Read done according to their instructions. The aim is to enable them to share their important experiences and thoughts with the world.
Strong Children Japan
Painting by Hana, 9, from Japan, with Japan-based English artist, Geoff Read. Part of the exhibition, Strong Children, featuring art and short essays by Japanese children affected by the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Strong Children Japan
see also > whats up: webcasts | FREEZE OUR FUKUSHIMAS | Strong Children Japan
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Zen - Movie about Dogen
Banmei Takahashi's "Zen"
based on the life of Japanese Zen Master Dogen
(19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253).
道元禅師
• Dōgen Zenji (also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, or Koso Joyo Daishi) (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto, and the founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under the Chinese Caodong lineage there. Dōgen is known for his extensive writing including the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma or Shōbōgenzō, a collection of ninety-five fascicles concerning Buddhist practice and enlightenment.
Zen (2009) Part 1
Zen - Movie about Dogen - DharmaflixWiki
....Banmei Takahashi's "Zen" is that rare serious film about this form of Buddhism, which has had a huge cultural influence but is little understood — let alone practiced — by ordinary Japanese. Perhaps it's a sign that, after decades of a single-minded focus on materialism, the culture is returning to its spiritual roots; or that one Baby Boomer director (Takahashi is 60) is getting religious in his old age.
Zen (2009) Part 2
Zen Beginner: Zen Movie Review: Zen
...Despite some moments of CG silliness the movie does manage to provide good dramatic pacing considering the amount to time in the movie that's dedicated to Zazen (admittedly not the most compelling thing to watch), the major events of Dogen's life are all covered, up to his death. The movie portrays him dying in Zazen as the monks continue to sit the rest of the period out of dedication to his practice. This portrayal diverges from the historical account but it's emblematic of the way a Zen master is supposed to die: either standing or sitting in perfect samadhi.
Overall Zen is entertaining and contains enough of a historical outline of Dogen's life that it's a worthwhile movie. I give it four out of five enso's.
see also
whats more: The Ino's Blog: Study Hall - Shobogenzo
正法眼蔵
Shōbōgenzō
(lit. "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") The term Shōbōgenzō has three main usages in Buddhism: (1) It can refer to the essence of the Buddha's realization and teaching, that is, to the Buddha Dharma itself, as viewed from the perspective of Mahayana Buddhism, (2) it is the title of a koan collection with commentaries by Dahui Zonggao, and (3) it is used in the title of two works by Dogen Kigen...
If you do not realize the fruit at this moment, when will you realize it?
If you do not cut off delusion at this moment, when will you cut off delusion?
If you do not become a buddha at this moment, when will you?
If you do not sit as a buddha at this moment, when will you practice as an active buddha?
Diligently examine this in detail...
whats more: Genjo Koan
Genjo Koan is perhaps the best known section of Eihei Dogen’s masterwork, Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye).
"The depth of the drop is the height of the moon"
Monday, December 5, 2011
new at what it is: red leaves, autumn wind update
updated presentation of a photo from last year
> what it is: red leaves, autumn wind update
original: what it is: red leaves, autumn wind
red leaves align
with force of wind
all the buddhas shout
see also
• whats more: autumn wind (not exactly haiku?)
俳句
Haiku (haikai verse), plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras (or on), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is inaccurate as syllables and moras are not the same. Haiku typically contain a kigo (seasonal reference), and a kireji (cutting word). In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line and tend to take aspects of the natural world as their subject matter, while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku and may deal with any subject matter.
• what it is: Fall in Mixed Woodland, Mendocino County
hurdy gurdy
painting by Hippolytus Lipinski: minstrel (1876),
possibly in Krakow (?)
i am seriously wanting to get a gurdy :)
see what next: Hurdy Gurdy: What's a Hurdy Gurdy anyway?
see what next: HURDY GURDY - misc photos
check out some beautiful instruments at what next: HURDY GURDY - photos: instruments by Hurdy Gurdy Crafters
NEW: hurdy gurdy playlist at
robertcherwink's YouTube channel
Sunday, November 20, 2011
reading list: Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice
Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice by Taizan Maezumi Roshi (Shambhala Classics)
Here is the first major collection of the teachings of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995), one of the first Japanese Zen masters to bring Zen to the West and founding abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Zen Mountain Center in Idyllwild, California. These short, inspiring readings illuminate Zen practice in simple, eloquent language. Topics include zazen and Zen koans, how to appreciate your life as the life of the Buddha, and the essential matter of life and death.
Appreciate Your Life conveys Maezumi Roshi’s unique spirit and teaching style, as well as his timeless insights into the practice of Zen. Never satisfied with merely conveying ideas, his teisho, the Zen talks he gave weekly and during retreats, evoked personal questions from his students. Maezumi Roshi insisted that his students address these questions in their own lives. As he often said, “Be intimate with your life.”
The readings are not teachings or instructions in the traditional sense. They are transcriptions of the master’s teisho, living presentations of his direct experience of Zen realization. These teisho are crystalline offerings of Zen insight intended to reach beyond the student’s intellect to her or his deepest essence. - Maezumi, Hakuyū Taizan - Sweeping Zen – The Zen Buddhism Database
Appreciate Your Life conveys Maezumi Roshi’s unique spirit and teaching style, as well as his timeless insights into the practice of Zen. Never satisfied with merely conveying ideas, his teisho, the Zen talks he gave weekly and during retreats, evoked personal questions from his students. Maezumi Roshi insisted that his students address these questions in their own lives. As he often said, “Be intimate with your life.”
The readings are not teachings or instructions in the traditional sense. They are transcriptions of the master’s teisho, living presentations of his direct experience of Zen realization. These teisho are crystalline offerings of Zen insight intended to reach beyond the student’s intellect to her or his deepest essence. - Maezumi, Hakuyū Taizan - Sweeping Zen – The Zen Buddhism Database
Taizan Maezumi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Hakuyū Taizan Maezumi (前角 博雄, February 24, 1931—May 15, 1995) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and rōshi, and lineage holder in the Sōtō, Rinzai and Harada-Yasutani traditions of Zen. He combined the Rinzai use of koans and the Sōtō emphasis on shikantaza in his teachings, influenced by his years studying under Hakuun Yasutani in the Harada-Yasutani school. He founded or co-founded several institutions and practice centers, including the Zen Center of Los Angeles, White Plum Asanga, Yokoji Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Mountain Monastery.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
WHAT NEXT - new blog
i recently launched a NEW BLOG - a mash up of whats up, what it is, whats more, GlobaLove Think Tank, stuff from my inbox & more - what next RC'S NEWS & RANDOM blog
whats up is now called "nuclear blog" - i started whats up in March of 2011 for miscellaneous news and random postings which don't fall under the photo or art & studies themes of my other two blogs ... includes a number of newsfeeds and a videos page. launched on the day of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
After the first few posts it became basically a news blog about the ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe with related nuclear news and commentary - not so random anymore, and it became progressively more activist...
what next is now where the miscellaneous news and random postings will land, and whats up will remain dedicated to nuclear news
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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