Dreams, illusion, bubbles and shadows_a doctoral PLR research project

Question of the day: What does staring inform? How is it be related to the Diamond Sutra, my main research material? How does it related to the non-linear temporal structure? The other questions: What this work is about? How will the work be completed as? an installation? a new media immersive work? On the analysis of the Diamond Sutra, Nagatomo (2000) questions the conventional idea of duality and proposes the 'neither nor' think pattern (deny every thought) rather than the pattern of 'either or' ( one correct, the other is incorrect). It is an interesting statement when he made a 'space' between the deem of oneself and the othering of the other beings: In the everyday standpoint of the `foolish, ordinary people’ when they assume the `natural standpoint’, a subject stands `here’, while a material thing exists `out there’ as an object, wherein a spatial distance separates them. In coming to know a material thing, the subject must objectify it and thus distance i...

"Is there in our conceptual scheme something that compels us to make this judgement?" (Nagatomo, 2000) Chinese character '相', mainly means appearances The Chinese character ‘相’is made up by the symbol of a tree/ a piece of wood and an eye. It is so powerful when the shape of an eye is seen in an epigraphic calligraphy ( in China, these kind of characters were mainly found on ancient bronze). Carving before the study of this Chinese character   1. Nagatomo, S. (2000). "The logic of the Diamond Sutra: A is not A, therefore it is A." Asian Philosophy 10(3): 213-244.