Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going on now is that the culture has split into mechanism and mysticism, and the people who are thinking of problems on a planetary scale are moving in opposite directions. Their solutions are different in content but have similar structures. So that planetary mysticism-the countercultural movement, Yoga, Zen, Subud, Sufism and all of the other newly popular religions-is trying to create an ideology for the planet that can relate to the limits of growth: non-aggression on nature; different relationships between men and women; a mysticism that is rooted in the physical, as it is in, say, Yoga...
...only thing that can make you small is to have eternity in a grain of sand, you know. Some religions would say one can strive, but Zen would say even to strive is to miss the satori. The goal is being rather than becoming. This is again where I feel that the mystical movements are the most technologically sophisticated political movements now operating. They make everything in Herman Kahn and the Club of Rome seem incredibly naive...
GOLDEN BUDDHAS, Greek Gods, Zen mystics, tigers, bulls, earthy wood nymphs, and even such personified abstractions as Stygian Sleep and Pleasure cavort their way across the Loeb's colorful arena to execute in rapid-fire "Laugh-In" style succession the Chicago Project's string of Chinese Wisecrackers. This melange was originally conceived as class exercises and improvisation lessons at Columbia College of Communication in Chicago, a radio, film, and performing arts conservatory. Transformed by Director Don Sanders and members of the Columbia theatre collective into a fusion of fifteen comic vignettes, the performance intertwines Zen mysticism and Greek myths...
...BEST Chinese wisecrackers is a compact tidbit of Zen that involves two tigers who pursue their helpless victim. Leaving them angrily howling below, he climbs a rope, only to find two mice gnawing through it from above. Represented by chattering dentures extended on long poles, they are about to sever his lifeline, when he spies a strawberry. Seizing and eating it, he reaches a complete enlightenment of Zen, found through the perfection of the fruit, and abandoning his mortal fate with a blissful cry of "Strawberry!", he drops to the waiting tigers below as the stage blacks...
Central to Arica's classroom work is a repertoire of exercises similar to the Audicon Plantar and loosely based on Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim Sufism and Tibetan Lamaism. Exercises called "Mentations" require the student to "concentrate your attention into each separate section" of the body for a prescribed time: 8 minutes 40 seconds for the colon and kidneys, 10 minutes 45 seconds for the liver, and so on. "Active in the World" calls for lying motionless, forearms supported on elbows, palms facing the feet, while feeling "the tissues of your body actively engaged in the dance of Life...