Word: zens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intrinsic debates, but they are sporting and professional ones for the most part or inextricable from the enterprise: the cupidity of organizers, the rebelliousness of snowboarders, and, oh yes, a feud among some of the Russian pair skaters. But all that should prove to be background noise. Breathe deeply. Zen is in the air. The ancient Greeks would have approved and duly declared, Let all hostilities cease, let the Games begin...
...unique blend," as the Buddhist scholar Christmas Humphreys once wrote, "of the noblest Buddhist principles and debased sorcery." Its core, as with all Buddhism, is a belief in suffering and emptiness, and the need for compassion in the face of those. But unlike the stripped-down austerities of Zen, say, Tibetan Buddhism swarms with animist spirits, vivid symbolic depictions of copulating bodies, and Tantric practices of magic and sexuality that, taken out of context or practiced without the right training, are inflammable...
...those heady days of long-haired hippies and afro-puffed Black Panthers. A person who gives each strand of hair the freedom to grow from its follicle--to find its own path from the scalp to the sky--is a rarity. Harvard has a few students who understand the Zen principles behind Big Hair. Some shape their hair, while others let their hair shape them. Here, some of Harvard's Big Hair population discuss the give-and-take that goes on each day between head and hair, between what's upstairs and what's way upstairs...
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...also had an exquisite sense of nuance. It comes out in his complex prints; his Zen-simple paper objects, Pages and Fuses, from the '70s; and in the shimmering veils of printed translucent fabric of the Hoarfrost series, image floating over image, as in Emerald (Hoarfrost), 1975, with its diver's body vanishing into the deep blue-green...