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12.00" x 7.00"
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17.50" x 12.50"
Shin / Mind / Heart Framed Print
by Peter Cutler
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Shin / Mind / Heart
Original Zen calligraphy (shodo) by Zen monk and artist Peter Cutler.
The kanji shin means both mind and heart. In the Japanese language there is no separation. We begin Zen calligraphy by learning and practicing the formal ways of kanji. As our practice develops so does our mind, our shin. It becomes empty and clear, available to life and reality. Then something interesting happens.
As attachment to the personal self dissolves, the brush takes on a life of its own. It begins to teach us. In this Zen calligraphy, the first and third dot join and take on the appearance of a two headed snake. The brush was teaching me that the mind has two aspects, the conditioned mind of thoughts, knowledge, opinions and suffering and the awakened mind unattached, empty and clear of all conditioning.
What of the middle dot unattached to either the conditioned mind or the awakened mind? This signifies the transcendence of both the conditioned mind and the...
About Peter Cutler
Peter Cutler is an internationally acclaimed artist, photographer and film director. At the young age of 20, he won Nikon Cameras prestigious international photography contest. Shows at leading galleries and art and photography magazines soon followed. Over the next 40 years he developed a successful career as a leading commercial artist, photographer and film director, winning over 150 international awards. After 20 years of meditation and spiritual practice, a profound spiritual awakening led him to leave the world of commercial art behind, become a Zen monk and devote his life to his newly discovered gift of healing and manifesting Spirit through art. As he readily acknowledges, this art flows through him, not from him. The art is...
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