This is an excellent overview of the development of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan, analyzing it from a doctrinal perspective and evaluating it in relation to the general state of society.
The “Nirvana Sutra” conveys the Buddha's legacy, which includes the Buddha's everlasting abode and all-pervading Buddha nature (everyone has the potential to become a Buddha). This is an excellent book that explains the process of its formation and the content of its ideas in an easy-to-understand manner. What is the essence of the “Nirvana Sutra,” which has had a great influence on Japanese Buddhism.
Shinichi Hisamatsu is a rare philosopher who transcended Western modernity and continued to investigate the path to “absolute autonomy,” a way of living unhindered and unrestricted by anything. This book contains essays that show the core of Hisamatsu's philosophy as well as his autobiographical essay, “Memories of a Life as an Academician.
What is “Dependent Co-arising” and who taught it? And who taught it? This groundbreaking essay explores the origin and development of the fundamental thought that pervades Buddhist history, and reveals its original form.
What are all sentient beings and what is the Buddha nature? Do all people possess the nature to become a Buddha? This is the most important discussion for truly understanding Buddhism.
228 pp., thread-sewn softcover
1 color offset, size: 135 x 200 cm
First edition, third printing: 1000
Language(s): French / English
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Authors: Félicia Atkinson, François Bayle, François J. Bonnet, Drew Daniel, Brunhild Ferrari, Beatriz Ferreyra, Stephen O’Malley, Jim O’Rourke, Eliane Radigue, Régis Renouard Larivière, Espen Sommer Eide, Daniel Teruggi, Chris Watson.
To resonate: re-sonare. To sound again—with the immediate implication of a doubling. Sound and its double: sent back to us, reflected by surfaces, diffracted by edges and corners. Sound amplified, swathed in an acoustics that transforms it. Sound enhanced by its passing through a certain site, a certain milieu. Sound propagated, reaching out into the distance. But to resonate is also to vibrate with sound, in unison, in synchronous oscillation. To marry with its shape, amplifying a common destiny. To join forces with it. And then again, to resonate is to remember, to evoke the past and to bring it back. Or to plunge into the spectrum of sound, to shape it around a certain frequency, to bring out sonic or electric peaks from the becoming of signals.
Resonance embraces a multitude of different meanings. Or rather, remaining always identical, it is actualised in a wide range of different phenomena and circumstances. Such is the multitude of resonances evoked in the pages below: a multitude of occurrences, events, sensations, and feelings that intertwine and welcome one other. Everyone may have their own history, everyone may resonate in their own way, and yet we must all, in order to experience resonance at a given moment, be ready to welcome it. The welcoming of what is other, whether an abstract outside or on the contrary an incarnate otherness ready to resonate in turn, is a condition of resonance. This idea of the welcome is found throughout the texts that follow, opening up the human dimension of resonance, a dimension essential to all creativity and to any exchange, any community of mind. Which means that resonance here is also understood as being, already, an act of paying attention, i.e. a listening, an exchange.
Addressing one or other of the forms that this idea of resonating can take on (extending—evoking—reverberating—revealing—transmitting), each of the contributions brought together in this volume reveals to us a personal aspect, a fragment of the enthralling territory of sonic and musical experimentation, a territory upon which resonance may unfold.
The book has been designed as a prism and as a manual. May it in turn find a unique and profound resonance in each and every reader.
— The Editors
AMBIENT × KYOTO - AMBIENT KYOTO is the world's premier ambient-themed audiovisual arts festival held in the world cultural city of Kyoto. AMBIENT KYOTO and Meditations have collaborated to create a new line of fully organic, natural hand-dyed tote bags from South India, which are now available for order at Meditations.
The tote bags are natural dyed in Auroville, South India, using local organic cotton canvas, Ayurvedic herbs, and indigo that has been fermented and aged for years.
124 pp.
tweed embossed softcover
otabind binding
Four colors offset on tracing, coated and uncoated papers
Format: 210 x 280 mm
Print run: 500 copies
Language: English & French
June 2023
Published by Shelter Press
All content by Félicia Atkinson
Design by Bartolomé Sanson
Translation by Rachel Valinsky
This time focusing on “Ghosts In The Machine”, or rather - the applications of AI and Machine Learning in the domain of music making, the foreward sets the tone “…the artificial, the artefact, is always the extra-human brainchild of a human, all too human dream.”
Inside, Steve Goodman reflects on his “IT” sound installation about the myth of Golem, Bill Orcutt explores repetition and automatism in music, Florian Hecker and Robin Mackay investigate their electroacoustic pieces ‘FAVN' and ‘Inspection (Maida Vale Project)’, Lucy Railton in conversation with Peter Zinovieff (R.I.P.) with a heartbreaking final line, Akira Rabelais’ semi-impenetrable but ultimately rewarding Lyre-mangled auto-fiction and, of course, Roland Kayn on Cybernetic Music. Lots more to explore inside.
Jordan Belson's best works are now available on DVD: Allures (1961), with its geometric patterns and optical images reminiscent of Oskar Fissinger (the circular images painted with light are truly beautiful and mysterious); Samadhi (1967), one of his best-known works, which depicts the world of enlightenment through fluid smoky images and light coloration; and Light (1973), which blends natural scenes with light. Samadhi (1967), which depicts a world of enlightenment through fluid smoky images and light coloration, Light (1973), which beautifully blends natural scenes with light, and Fountain of Dreams (1984), which unfolds a universe trapped inside that makes us marvel at how far human creativity and expression can go. Fountain of Dreams (1984)" is an unfolding of a universe trapped inside, and "Epilogue (2005)" is a compilation of his works, which is a fitting end to the album, and shows the same creative ability as 40 years ago.
Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) was a pioneer of abstract visual art and visual music, influencing not only filmmakers but also composers such as John Cage and Edgar Allais. Many of his works are in collections of museums and galleries around the world, and this is the definitive collection of his 10 works.
World heritage abstract animation feats that combine sound, color and form. The Center for Visual Music, which has produced DVDs of works by Oskar Fischinger and others, has restored 13 rare pre-computer works from 1947 to 1986 and brought them back to life on DVD, This is the first DVD collection of works by Jordan Belson(1926-2011), Mary Ellen Bute(1906-1983), Charles Dockum(1904-1977), Jules Engel(1909-2003), Barry Spinello. From early experimental techniques using oscilloscopes to painting directly on film, this is a very valuable collection of works that cannot be avoided when experiencing abstract animation. Region free, approximately 79 minutes..
Mary Ellen Bute: Polka Graph (1947), Color Rhapsodie (1948) and Abstronic (1952) Jordan Belson: Mandala (1953), Meditation (1971) and Chakra (1972) Charles Dockum: Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim (1952), Demonstration of Mobilcolor Projector (documentary, 1966) and Mobilcolor Performance Film (1969) Barry Spinello, Sonata for Pen, Brush and Ruler (1968) Jules Engel: Landscape (1971), Mobiles (1978) and Play-Pen (1986)
Out of print. After several years of preparation, we are pleased to announce the release of Vol. 2, a collection of works by German animator Oskar Fissinger (1900-1967), a pioneer of abstract visual art and visual music who influenced not only filmmakers but also composers such as John Cage and Edgard Varèse. After several years of preparation, it has finally been released. He was involved in the early stages of Walt Disney's production, and many of his works are collected in museums and galleries around the world.
A contribution based on a lecture given at the Imperial Palace. The author's understanding of Buddhism is concisely and fully expressed in this well-regarded masterpiece.
Discrimination is not created by someone else, but by the mind of "self". This lecture transcript reveals the self-centeredness hidden behind various types of discrimination.
Why did Shinran, one of Japan's leading Buddhist monks, declare himself "neither a monk nor a layman"? Guided by these famous words, Shinran explains what it means to live life as it is, free from all fetters.
In the last lecture given by Daiei Kaneko before his death, he talks about the teachings of altruistic nembutsu, which are eternal and immortal teachings that fundamentally reveal the salvation of humankind. This is the definitive introductory book that explains the essence of "Tannisho" in simple words.
This Meditations Classic Logo T-shirt is inspired by Hinduism and the Sadhu. The body is a 6-ounce T-shirt made by Gildan. The Color is Orange.(not Red)
