tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9493601.post1987073982701242249..comments2024-01-11T15:12:49.433-05:00Comments on Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Hearing with the EyeAndy Ilachinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14572501787099507666noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9493601.post-36151254708654025962019-06-07T21:17:12.730-05:002019-06-07T21:17:12.730-05:00Hi Andy
A perplexing commentary to be sure which I...Hi Andy<br />A perplexing commentary to be sure which I have pondered for some time. For me there is some clarification in several related concepts. One is the term suchness, a central Chan concept which has to do with the "thisness" of things, or as Dongshan Liangjie purportedly said, "just this is it" : a more positive expression of "emptiness" in which nothing has any self-nature. All these words are problematic because this is not a matter of concepts so much as an awareness to be experienced, with parallels to aesthetic experience. Another way of coming at it that seems useful to me is Gary Snyder's statement that "suchness is the nature of the nature of nature". Still another commentary I have found huseful is Robert Aitken's "The Mind of Clover". Obviously clover does not have a mind in the conventional human sense but rather a no-mind of "wu-wei", doing what is in accord with circumstance, without being subject to the distractions of greed, animosity and ignorance that we humans are vulnerable to because of the evolutionary development of our constitution. Roy Moneyhttp://roymoney.comnoreply@blogger.com