“A temple or a tradition is a structure, but it can be an open ended structure, like a poem. It can be a structure that serves as a container that allows us to keep honoring the passing world, creating structures like paintings and poetry - not as things that are fixed, but as beautiful containers that allow us to honor reality as it is, honor our open-hearted response to the passing world.” - Matthew Sherling
ACZC’s favorite poet in residence Matthew gives us a talk on Zen, creativity, and art and the many frictions and harmonies between them. Can we train spontaneity? Does Zen’s famous skepticism of the written word discourage or liberate our writing? If we’re so focused on letting our thoughts go, will we still be able to grab the good ones and get them on the page?? Find out here!