temple walls (SE)
Ryuten Paul Rosenblum


“Making these temple images is part of my ongoing interest in understanding and expressing how meeting takes place between ourselves, on another, each thing. Through my 40+year engagement with Zen practice, I have found that it is essential, as my first teacher Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said, to ‘believe in nothing.’ Out of the utter clarity of this dynamic, ever changing nothing, each arising may appear as it is, each meeting may take place not limited to our views and preferences.”_Ryuten Paul Rosenblum

Ryuten Paul Rosenblum Roshi is a lineage holder in the Zen Buddhist tradition of Dongshan and Dogen, and he began making photographs in 2011. The significance of the visual arts in Ryuten’s life has been developed and refined by decades of Zen practice and temple life. This practice life is rooted in qualities such as spaciousness, impermanence, stillness, clarity, intimacy, incompleteness, simplicity and the absence of pretension grounded in the mysterious uniqueness of each in the present moment.


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Special Edition, 20 copies
2017
48 pages
14.5 x 23.5 cm
Hard cover / Accordion binding / Slip case
ISBN 978-89-97605-21-7

* Includes one original print (signed) with a handmade bookcase
* The bookmaking process of this book is carried out with exquisite craftsmanship by Datz Books.