Zen and the Art of Floggers.
Dec. 10th, 2006 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wheelieterpIn one of those moments that leads me to believe that the divine was talking directly to me (ME! ME!! It's all about ME!!), I just heard a lecture on the Zen construct of WABI SABI.
During this lecture, the speaker talked about the sacredness of the objects involved in the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and the differnt ways that other cultures value thier sacred objects. In Japan, there is a Shinto temple that contains 10,000 sacred objects. This temple and its objects are cherished and cared for with a kind of reverant zeal. And until recently, every 20 years, the temple and all 10,000 sacred objects in it were completely destroyed and rebuilt.
This was not meant to be a lesson in the fleetingness of life, nor an effort in to instill an idea that materialism is less than holy (although both of those ideas are rather Zen), but rather, this practice was meant to ensure that craftsmen skilled in the creation of sacred things would always be around; that traditions of art would be passed from generation to generation.
Dude, that's fucking deep.
And this came after the discussion about my stolen flogger... See why it looks like divine communication?
During this lecture, the speaker talked about the sacredness of the objects involved in the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and the differnt ways that other cultures value thier sacred objects. In Japan, there is a Shinto temple that contains 10,000 sacred objects. This temple and its objects are cherished and cared for with a kind of reverant zeal. And until recently, every 20 years, the temple and all 10,000 sacred objects in it were completely destroyed and rebuilt.
This was not meant to be a lesson in the fleetingness of life, nor an effort in to instill an idea that materialism is less than holy (although both of those ideas are rather Zen), but rather, this practice was meant to ensure that craftsmen skilled in the creation of sacred things would always be around; that traditions of art would be passed from generation to generation.
Dude, that's fucking deep.
And this came after the discussion about my stolen flogger... See why it looks like divine communication?
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Date: 2006-12-11 03:34 pm (UTC)Um, so now you're supposed to learn how to craft one-of-a-kind floggers and get an apprentice and ObiWan him/her into the leather community? Wow, that's heavy. And I thought *my* New Years Resolutions for 2007 were going to be tough {grin}. Good luck, and have a happy start-of-holiday-season.
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Date: 2006-12-11 08:21 pm (UTC)Crafty, I am not.
BTW.... You have been showing up more on my blog, and I can't help but shake the feeling that we have met IRL... Have we?
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Date: 2006-12-15 02:36 am (UTC)