When we practice loving all life, we begin our lessons in relationship. Everything we learn we learn intimately, whether it be in psychotherapy, in spiritual practice, or in our family life.
True learning is not a matter of a neuron registering some fact with no involvement from ourselves; in order to know, we always must participate in the act of knowing. Learning takes place not by acquiring something, but from opening up, dropping self-centered concerns, and meeting each other.
If when we encounter each other we wish for a true “meeting of minds,” we can only accomplish this through intimacy. Learning or teaching, we exchange not just information but also something essential of ourselves.
Robert Rosenbaum, Zen and Psychotherapy
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Your ensos are simply beautiful, day after day.
Thank you, Jeanne! 99 more to go! 😉
An essential enso. Thank you!
Love this enso! And too I think we must be willing to meet ourselves, perhaps first in the equation?
Beautiful Enso – so full of symbolism! One embracing the other, one holding the “space” for the other – co-existing from the Heart of Wholeness… (probably too much interpretation ;/)
Christine, it was more like: Sh()t, that looks stupid! Try with more paint… oh damn, spilled it… bloody hell… now what… oh fudggit… just fling the brush around once!
OH! Now I’m laughing out loud! LOVE the description of your process!
Barry, ZDS: Interesting, isn’t it? I almost didn’t put it up. But the rules are… no discards! 😀
ZDS: have to meet ourselves first to know who we are giving to others! 😆
Like your ensōs. Never looked at them seriously before.
Hello Nishant! How are you?
Thank you for your kind words. Ensōs are lots of fun to do. Take a look at Audrey Seo’s book Ensō – Zen circles of enlightenment. You might enjoy that too.