Böcker av Richard Stodart

DreamMaking, The Intimacy of Picture/Reality conjoins words, pictures, and reality, to provide a modern vision of non-duality in which enlightenment is "ever-intimate" with and transparent to delusion; right within enlightenment is the insidiousness of delusion, and right within delusion is the ambiguity of enlightenment. The act of making a dream in the context of Dogen's Zen was engaged in the painting experience during eight years of study by the artist Richard Stodart, six years of which included email conversations with Hee-Jin Kim, author of Dogen On Meditation And Thinking: A Reflection On His View of Zen (SUNY Press, 2007). Readers will find judiciously selected essential passages from the textual maze of Dogen On Meditation And Thinking, chosen and organized by the artist to present intelligent readers Dogen's thought with enhanced clarity and excitement. Twenty-two abstract paintings are interspersed among the words, which served the painterly praxis of understanding and expressing the realizational/dynamics of Dogen's Zen. The actional understanding of the binary pair of delusion and enlightenment, as entwined vines of existence-time, is examined in paintings such as Entwined Vines, As One Side Is Illumined..., Sameness and Difference, Spring/Peony Flower, Mountains And Rivers, and What Is This That Comes, in and through the dual "seeing"/"making" function of emptiness. An attempt is thus made to deconstruct ("see")/reconstruct ("make") a dream of delusion and enlightenment as "great delusion"/"great enlightenment." For readers unfamiliar with Dogen's nondual dialectic of delusion and enlightenment, DreamMaking, The Intimacy of Picture/Reality offers a novel introduction through the co-focal intimacy of words and pictures/the universe.

The “someone” immersing itself in the nonduality of painting/a picture is presumed to be the mediator in and through which the symbol and the symbolized entwine as nondual foci of entire time.In this retrospective, covering more than 40 years of his work in the painting experience, Richard Stodart explores the mediator as presence, cognition, archetypal awareness, naked awareness, beauty, the dragon, wisdom, synairesis, the consciousness of abstracting, geniality, luxury, and nonthinking.  In the process, discrete pairs of nonduality are engaged, including the foci:  duality and nonduality, self and reality, continuity and discontinuity, enlightenment and delusion, earth and sky, light and darkness, equality and differentiation, engagement and contemplation, thinking and meditation.Two-hundred and two paintings in color and seventeen black and white drawings illustrate this quest with nonduality.Practitioners of Daism, primordial wisdom teachings, Kaballah, Tibetan Buddhism, tantra, Taoism, Vedanta, Dogen’s Zen, and those interested in the works of Jean Gebser, Alfred Korzybski, and Lewis L. Thompson will find touchstones of affirmation in this book.