Read Thread: Zen Letterboxing
Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Jun 30, 2006 8:16pm
So I was talking to an artist friend of mine and bemoaning my stolen/vandalized/flooded boxes. He reminded me that a lot of his own art is temporary such as his sidewalk chalk murals, amazing sand castles, ice sculptures, and the like. He told me I had to embrace a more Zen attitude toward my boxes, which has really helped a lot. Especially when I find current pics of my box locations...like this one of my Trenton Falls box...
http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=CA&Dato=20060630&Kategori=NEWS04&Lopenr=630001&Ref=PH
And here's a pic of my Trenton Falls box location before the flood:
http://www.atlasquest.com/gallery/viewphoto.html?gPhotoId=3531
LW (Zen-like but not in the lotus position)
http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=CA&Dato=20060630&Kategori=NEWS04&Lopenr=630001&Ref=PH
And here's a pic of my Trenton Falls box location before the flood:
http://www.atlasquest.com/gallery/viewphoto.html?gPhotoId=3531
LW (Zen-like but not in the lotus position)
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jun 30, 2006 8:25pm
Wowzers, that's a LOT of water moving through there. I can relate.
Sometimes, like now, I wish I had read more Zen-related stuff. I suppose I do still have time.
StarSAELS
Sometimes, like now, I wish I had read more Zen-related stuff. I suppose I do still have time.
StarSAELS
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jul 1, 2006 6:56am
Lock Wench - I'm so sorry about your boxes :(
Hang in there! You can do it. Just keep chanting 'Ooommm' with your pinkies up in the air.
I can't do lotus either, but I do sit sort of cross-legged and it seems to help center me.
SunFleur
Hang in there! You can do it. Just keep chanting 'Ooommm' with your pinkies up in the air.
I can't do lotus either, but I do sit sort of cross-legged and it seems to help center me.
SunFleur
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jul 1, 2006 3:56pm
If that helps great, personally I'd like to go ballistic on them. That would be my therapy. :)
Shiloh
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jul 2, 2006 5:20am
Absolutely. I know little to nothing about Zen, but I do know that while a letterbox can in principle last for decades, it also can be gone in a moment -- due to malicious people, careless people, animals, floods, bulldozers, any of a dozen other causes over which we have no control. You know that when you plant it, and yet you do it -- because you know that while it lasts, it provides enjoyment.
In the final analysis all art is ephemeral. Only the time scale varies. Which isn't to say it's not a sad thing when a letterbox is lost, only that this is the way of things. Say goodbye, then carve another.
In the final analysis all art is ephemeral. Only the time scale varies. Which isn't to say it's not a sad thing when a letterbox is lost, only that this is the way of things. Say goodbye, then carve another.
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27480 by Doctroid
Jul 2, 2006 5:48am
Dead on, Doc. You said it better than I could.
LW
LW
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27480 by Doctroid
Jul 2, 2006 6:22am
Very well said...............z
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27480 by Doctroid
Jul 2, 2006 11:52am
I've had one disappear because of flood and another because of animals (I think) both ave been replanted.
I could even deal with park personel but to have some malicious punk destroy it *just because* makes my blood pressure go up.
Shiloh
I could even deal with park personel but to have some malicious punk destroy it *just because* makes my blood pressure go up.
Shiloh