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...friends and I sat down at the Rendezvous after Saturday night's concert, and David told a Zen story...
...woodcarving tradition developed, artists preferred to assemble their work from segments of wood pinned and jointed together. The Japanese, who did most to develop this method, called it yosegi. In this show, the masterpiece of the technique, borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, is a late 13th century Zen carving of a priest, the Hoto Kokushi (literally, Lamp-of-the-Law National Teacher) Muhon Kakushin...
Early sacerdotal portraits of this kind are seldom seen in the West, because most of the surviving ones remain in their temples and are the most sacred of cult objects. The Zen master sits in the lotus position on a plain bench; his robe falls almost to the ground; a pair of empty slippers fit below its hem. Its spread belies the slenderness of the old priest, who was probably about 80 when the likeness was made. His face is all parchment and bone. The prow of a nose and the jutting underlip have a fierce antique gravity, like Renaissance...
...novels, however, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," by Robert Pirsig, both published two years ago, appear to have stood the test of time...
...book reads at times like a sort of "Zen and the Art of House-Building," as when Cole says, "Getting your head in shape is the first and most important construction project in any home-building plan." But overall it is concrete. It deals in ample detail with all the information needed to plan and build a house in harmony with its natural environment. It tells how to face it south to get heat from the sun's rays and how best to conserve the heat once it enters the house, how to design the outside to blend with...