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...Being a Zen Buddhist is all about freeing yourself from any unnatural elements, which will hinder your own ability to pursue what you want to achieve in life. In my case that’s to make art,” she says. “In the fine arts department, it’s about being fluid and free while also staying focused...
...Angeles Times, the principals issued statements of the sort written by lawyers after the settlement of a messy divorce case. (Mostow: "Bruce is a professional ... I admire Bruce as an actor." A Willis spokesman: "Bruce has no problems with Jonathan Mostow at all.") (Read TIME's Surrogates report: "The Zen Machismo of Bruce Willis...
...inspecting the carcass, and not just because there's not much else to look at. With his coiled poise and the compact gestures of someone who doesn't mind being scrutinized by the camera, Willis exudes worldly wariness and cosmic weariness, as if he'd achieved a state of Zen machismo. He offered a giant dose of this in the last and best Die Hard movie, in 2007, where his hero, John McClane, was so close to a still life - his own heroic statue - that we wondered if the guy was even alive. Well, yes and no. There...
...ideas that will revolutionize our definition of luxury. Donna Karan has always drawn on her personal needs for inspiration. She started her company in 1984 with a creative solution for stressed-out working women: a wardrobe system, Seven Easy Pieces. Now she's broadening her vision with the Urban Zen initiative, looking for alternative-therapy solutions for patient care. Luxury comes in all shapes: Spanx founder Sara Blakely's brand was born of her personal quest for a sleeker silhouette. Thirty-five-year-old business whiz Wen Zhou craved luxury but couldn't afford it, so she teamed up with...
...seeing problems and fresh ways of solving them. At this particular American inflection point, after the crash and before the rebuild, frankly admitting that we aren't absolutely certain how to proceed is liberating, and crucial. I like paradoxes, which is why, even though I'm not particularly religious, Zen Buddhism has always appealed to me. Take the paradoxical state that Buddhists seek to achieve, what they call sho-shin, or "beginner's mind." The 20th century Japanese Zen master Shunryu Suzuki, who spent the last dozen years of his life in America, famously wrote that "in the beginner...