--- Peter wrote:

Dear Kitsune Miko:

Thank you very much for your quick response on a
very difficult subject.
Please accept my highest compliments as you are the
first person in my
memory who was able to address this subject
knowledgeably on this forum, and
I have been a member nearly since the IBC's original
inception.

However, we may disagree on the application of an
open, beginner's mind. I
will argue that the Zen quality, if any. resides in
the
artist/creator/discoverer and perhaps even in the
viewer, but not in the
object itself. The object, be a tree, stone,
painting, tea cup, etc., just
serve as a bridge, a connection between two like
minded persons.

Yeah, but the stone and or tree can be considered
sentient objects that think the viewer has r does not
have Zen quality.

We could also get int attachement/non attachement, but
perhaps another time.


My friend Lynn Boyd often reminds me that art is a
social function, and like
a team sport it requires the cooperation of the
participants and agreement
upon a common basis for appreciation.

I agree but also delight in the self pleasuring
aspects of the doing.

If I have a "beginner's mind" and discover a stone
that elicit an emotional
and artistic impulse in me where does the Zen
quality resides? And if you
look at the same stone and you are unmoved by it
what happened to that Zen
quality?

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Thank you,

Kitsune Miko

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