SITTING STILL WITH NATUREMOUNTAINS NODDING OFF TO SLEEP
IMPERMANENCE OR DEATH The face represents a person fading away from this earth. While they do, their bones are left in the soil to nourish and continue the cycle of life. The panel also represents the impermanence of everything, our thoughts, our emotions, our relationships and all material things. BEGINNERS MIND This is the first of a three-piece series. Beginner’s mind, samsara and death. A beginners mind is “having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, even when studying at an advanced level, just as a beginner in that subject would. Suzuki Roshi famously said, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
