Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Please describe what a Zen picture could be!
I realize that perhaps my pears image doesn't fit what I believe to be zen- but the smoke photo would definitely fit.
Zen:
An image that is minimalist without too much distracting detail; or specific object so one can simply let their mind roam
without thinking, hence creating interior peace. Allows one to leave anxiety behind and create a stress free space. Abstract
photos would work well.
That’s so true, Wofgang!I think, there is nothing like a "zen image" as Zen is not static.
There may be images about Zen or images which lead to Zen or create Zen ...
I think I may have not phrased it right, trying to make sure the description would be under 50 words. But I really don't think there should be any specific object that pulls your attention.Worthy definition!
I think “specific objects” might be fine as long as they don’t seduce ones attention, like a winking “hot” potential date or fruit for sale or a “stop” sign!
Asher
This image to me, is not Zen, but shows how one may achieve Zen. Having a few stones and a blank canvas of sand, the act of not really thinking but just creating for creatings sake. A bit like doodling not descriptive things, like swirls and lines etc., where you are mindlessly doing something that pulls your mind out of your mind. I think a lot of images for Zen that you will find online, show you perhaps how one would create zen, or an empty space and are not actually images depicting Zen.That’s so true, Wofgang!
Zen appears to be an “attitude”, a state of mind, in reference to an image, but outside of it, as just suggested so succinctly by Jérôme.
In Yiddish, we use, (in our old-German Hebraized language), the word “Menche”, to describe a person who is not merely a man, but
“decent, trustworthy, reliable, true to his word,”
too, all terms, unrelated to the actual physical body of the man.
So we say something is “Zen”, we do not refer to the physics of the sand and stones.
Rather the “transcendence“ of the moment where one can be tranquil and “leave” that place!
Asher
This image to me, is not Zen, but shows how one may achieve Zen. Having a few stones and a blank canvas of sand, the act of not really thinking but just creating for creatings sake. A bit like doodling not descriptive things, like swirls and lines etc., where you are mindlessly doing something that pulls your mind out of your mind. I think a lot of images for Zen that you will find online, show you perhaps how one would create zen, or an empty space and are not actually images depicting Zen.
This requires Zen glasses! But it works!
Generally, western culture doesn’t get Zen, like they done get quantum physics or how we can have more than one type of infinity.
Jérôme,We can prove that there is more than one type of infinity, but we cannot know which one.