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Alan Lessik

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Posted on June 26, 2017July 1, 2017

The Museum as Art: Tadeo Ando and Ryue Nishizawa

" When a fish swims, no matter how far it swims, it doesn't reach the end of the wayer. When a bird flies, no matter how high it fileis, it cannot reach the end of the sky. When a bird's need or the fish's need is great, the range is large. When the need is …

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Posted on January 27, 2015January 27, 2015

Back to Comparisons

The question of zen is what now? Not what's next as in I'm bored now what do I do, but what occurs next in our perceptions of life around us. What now is the recognition that in any moment, however one subdivides that into seconds or milliseconds, until we die there is something next. It …

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Posted on January 20, 2015January 27, 2015

What Happens in Halong Bay, Stays in Halong Bay

Impermanence update. IPhone on the bottom of Halong Bay. Causes and conditions update. Kayak with a small leak causes wet conditions in my shorts; wet shorts cause me to take out my iPhone and camera from wet pockets and places it under my life jacket. Wet conditions also temporarily (as though everything could not be …

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Posted on January 10, 2015January 27, 2015

Where Have All the Buddha Heads Gone (in Angkor Wat?)

Impermanence, that was the word that kept coming to me yesterday and today roaming the temples of Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and a host of smaller temples (already impermanent to my memory.) Angkor Thom, meaning Great City, had a population of over one million in the 1200s, making it the largest city in the world …

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Posted on January 7, 2015January 27, 2015

You Can’t Take the Buddha Out of the Bhutanese

Buddha is big here, obviously, super big.  So big that the world's largest Buddha statue is being constructed on a hillside over looking Thimphu. But that is not what I mean about being big. I mean big as imbued in people's lives at all levels. Officially Buddhist temples and the religious hierarchy are part of …

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Posted on January 6, 2015January 27, 2015

Bhutan: Climbing the Tiger’s Nest

It is 4 am and we are already in our car headed back to Paro from Punakha where we famously met the King and Queen the day before. 4 am because the road is closed between 8 and 10 am or later for construction and an early departure will guarantee we will easily make it …

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Posted on December 29, 2014February 2, 2015

Buddha in Bangkok

The mailbox sums up life nicely--Bangkok or other places. That's kind of the nature of perception. We are here and not somewhere else. Memories, traumas and desires might try to take us away from here and the present, yet all we really have is this moment to experience. Buddha is big here in Bangkok. The …

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