Word: zenning
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...Zen German. Bissier's fragile modes had rude beginnings. Son of a French-descended blacksmith whose forebears moved to the Black Forest from Toulouse, Bissier first explored landscape. Gold medals came his way, but after the Third Reich banned him from exhibiting in 1933 and a disastrous fire at his Freiburg University studio destroyed all his work the next year, he cast aside the past...
...Chinese!" a famous German Sinologist, Ernst Grosse, had exclaimed when he bought 16 of Bissier's works in 1919. "I was puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...
...jazz singer's voice. There were also-as there are in much of the music she sings-passages calling for whatever noises she cared to make -a dog's bark, a grunt, a sigh. The audience responded with plain fury, moving Cage to recite a Zen parable in Berberian's defense: In a far country there lived a beautiful girl who was desired by all the men who saw her. One day she found herself alone at a river bank and decided to swim. She took off all her clothes and went into the water naked...
Karate as a discipline has much in common with gymnastics, Yoga, modern dance, and zen, tracing its ancestry back to the sixth century Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma. As a result, the breathing techniques and many of the exercises employed are identical to ones used in Yoga, and are very similar to exercises used in the other three disciplines...
...Nosedive." A Kyoto banker's son, Nagare was so brash from the beginning that his father packed him off to a Zen temple to meditate. While there, Nagare was entranced by an aging master swordsmith, who ritualistically tempered keen blades for samurai swords, as good for beholding as for beheading. For four years, Nagare took classes at night in order to devote days as an apprentice to the old swordsmith, learning lessons about the taut contours and precision polish that eventually cropped up in his sculpture...