Zen Rock Gardens: relationship to sand
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA

"All things have an ultimate nature. A real existence that ordinary people's minds are unprepared to see. For example, when ordinary people see something, they immediately classify and label that thing. They are unable to make sense of reality without this process. This conceptualization process is based on our subjective experiences and always causes gross distortions.

It is as if we look at the rock, but only see the rings around the rock. Knowing where the rings are is useful information. The rings tell us a lot about the rock's size shape and location, but it is very far from seeing the rock directly. Similarly, ordinary perception is useful in day to day life, but is a poor second to seeing reality directly."

I think understanding this relationship with the rock garden and what is seen it, will allow people to open their mind, and not be confined to a "wired" thinking that our brains have been trained to follow. This will benefit the approach we take in building a colony in space, so we dont repeat the same mistakes.

Wed, Apr 18, 2007  Permanent link

Sent to project: Design Media Arts at UCLA

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