It feels like time for a nod to Frederick Franck, mentor supreme, whose book The Awakened Eye
For to the awakened eye no thing remains a mere thing. It reveals itself to be, instead of an object, an EVENT in the timeless abyss of time, an event of unfathomable meaning that happens to take place more or less simultaneously with the event I call “Me”. In the language of Zen this state of no-thingness, of selflessness, is called Mu (literally it means “no”), in which I become an empty vessel, filled by what the eye sees.
I let [the things being drawn] flow through this Mu, let them precipitate themselves onto the paper, as if without any “thinking”, any interference on my part.
For these moments to happen I have lived sixty-some years.
~ Frederick Franck, The Awakened Eye
related:
the leaf’s budding and dying are my own!
Frederick Franck’s to-do list
at wonderingmind studio blog
