In the 18th century, enlightenment had almost opposite meanings in East and West. To Europeans it meant release by reason from superstition, that is, from religion and the burden of the past. In Japan ...

So, let’s just go for it. What the hell happened in art history after the 1950s when the real, discrete art movements started to break down? That’s right — we’re taking the bull by the horns here, ...

One of the most important books I’ve read is called Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. I’ll give you a short summary of the book, from the book: “In the beginner’s mind there are many ...

Zen master, artist and author John Daido Loori has a point to make. At a reception, film screening and gallery talk titled “Art and Environmental Activism” — which takes place tonight in conjunction ...

“The Buddha, the Godhead,” he writes, “resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a ...

The Los Angeles Housing Department has paid thousands of dollars to a Zen Buddhist priest from Hawaii for management training that includes teaching breathing with sphincter control, learning “how to ...