X-Ray Fuji

[Alan Sondheim]

X-Ray Fuji


Fuji remains down to the silver grain; the original is sharp. But the
grain dissipates; it refuses the exhaustion that height and brea/d/th
can bring.

As for beauty, it is only skin deep. The skin is plastic; the sheen is
digital; the skin is digitized; the sheen spreads analogically across
the memory of skin and its absence.

The x-ray is plastic protrusion; its sheen is digital; the bones are
digitized. Buddha would visit the house of this woman and clothe her
with skin. The woman (who is Buddha) would visit the house of atmosphere,
house of air-with-no-harm.

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Though we say 'a step', this connotes te whole body; that is to say, the
whole body undergoes change; the aggregates of the whole body undergo new
births, new growth-and-decays, and new deaths. If a hundred steps or a
thousand steps are taken in the course of a walk, then a hundred or a
thousand new births, new growth-and-decays, and new deaths take place in
the whody. A step may also be divided into two, as the lifting-up
aggregate and the laying-down aggregate of the foot. And in each single
step, birth, growth-and-decay, and death must be noted.

The same holds good with regard to all the postures of the body, such as
standing, sitting, sleeping, stretching out, drawing in. Only, what is to
be understood here is that all tired, wearied, inflammatory, irritative,
painful states are changes in the continua of aggregates produced by
temperature. Both in exhaling and inhaling, beginnings, middles and ends
are all discernible.

The phase of continuance, of stability in the existence of the aggregates,
is immediately followed by decay which, in connectioon with such matter,
is called exhaustion or weariness. [...]

Exposition of Tirana-Parinna

The three salient marks or features are:

 	1. anicca-lakkhana: the mark of impernanence
 	2. dukkha-lakkhana: the mark of ill
 	3. anatta-lakkhana: the mark of no-soul. [...]

Thus if we look with the mind's eye, the mark of impermanence in all the
matter of the whole body will be clearly discerned.

- Mahathera Ledi Sayadaw, The Manuals of Buddhism, Bangkok, 1978. (I
strongly recommend this work, which is available second-hand online.)


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