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Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action
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Franck, the author of Zen of Seeing, the classic guide, returns with more teachings and instructions.
ebook, 192 pages
Published
August 17th 2011
by Bantam
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I'd love to write a haiku as the review because the author showed such love for those, but I couldn't. :)
This book is about how we see life and seeing life, living life, we see ourselves. Life is a koan, you can only solve the koan by becoming it. Drawing is a mean to express that process of seeing, becoming, living.
I'm not sure I understand throughoutly what he hopes to transfer, but reading the book is a soothing, calming process. I find myself enjoy his view, his words, his tone, emotions, t ...more
This book is about how we see life and seeing life, living life, we see ourselves. Life is a koan, you can only solve the koan by becoming it. Drawing is a mean to express that process of seeing, becoming, living.
I'm not sure I understand throughoutly what he hopes to transfer, but reading the book is a soothing, calming process. I find myself enjoy his view, his words, his tone, emotions, t ...more
This book literally changed my life!! I got it as a gift and I use Zen drawing in all my art work now. It inspired me to write my first book in Dutch which was published in 2012 and as a result I was asked by an American publisher to write a practical book with lots of exercises and drawings. Together with other Franck fans we have created a zen drawing Facebook community were people can share their drawings and experiences.
I am very grateful to Frederick Franck for being such an inspiration an ...more
I am very grateful to Frederick Franck for being such an inspiration an ...more
Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing came to my attention in 2013, already a 20-year-old book. Since then I’ve read it a few times and it continues to speak to me. I recommend it to you, especially the travellers and writers among us.
Like Franck, I cannot sit and meditate. I fail to clear my mind of the dribble that pushes its way into any space and silence. Yet, when I sit to sketch, everything disappears except the object of my attention. I slip into Zen-state where an hour or two passes as if it was a mom ...more
Like Franck, I cannot sit and meditate. I fail to clear my mind of the dribble that pushes its way into any space and silence. Yet, when I sit to sketch, everything disappears except the object of my attention. I slip into Zen-state where an hour or two passes as if it was a mom ...more
This book is not about drawing. It's subject is much deeper. How to be? Inside the pages is no formula but encouragement to see. We spend so much of our time looking at the world, yet we rarely take time to see. When we allow ourselves the time to slow and open to what is really before us we can't help but become part of it, or the world becomes part of us. To have this kind of approach to the world would of course change the way one draws, but it also changes the way we interact and worship, if
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Let me first say that the concept -- Zen -- is thought of by the experts as indefinable. I got this from my mother when she was reading a book devoted to the subject. (Isn't that funny?) Only after she'd gone through a couple of chapters, could she say that it meant being "still," and thus, the practice of Zen is the practice of being "still."
Franck offers another interpretation: "the awakening to the intimate contact with the sanity of our core..." (p. 23)... which sounds very intense, but it's ...more
Franck offers another interpretation: "the awakening to the intimate contact with the sanity of our core..." (p. 23)... which sounds very intense, but it's ...more
This is no ordinary drawing instruction book. Mr. Frank talks about the all-important difference between looking and actually seeing, and what goes on in the mind and body when the act of drawing takes place. It is very difficult to put such things into words, and he does it so well. The author's own drawings grace every page, and perfectly illustrate the concepts presented in the text.
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I enjoyed the sketches, but truthfully it didn't inspire me to pick up the pen.
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Franck is a renewed favorite. I was obsessed with a book of his I have had for 20 years and just picked this one up and read it in full.
Exceptional meditation on how to really see the world around you. this book helped to strengthen my poetry writing as well.
Interesting perspective - drawing as a form of meditation. Really enjoyed the first part of the book and drawings but then there seemed to be a lot of repetition. Tried the first drawing as seeing exercise without much success which was a little disappointing. It suggests it is not the finished product but the process which is important, but I can't seem to get away from liking the picture itself. Also he discourages shading and yet he does some shading in his sketches. None the less, very worth
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I am not a Buddhist, but I have come to appreciate aspect of Zen in my nature study and and photography. This book, especially early on really was useful in giving me insight too a way of opening myself up.
I've had this book for some time and I always go back to it.
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