Thesaurus: PRINCESS

Thesaurus:
PRINCESS:

Main Entry: darling
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sweetheart
Synonyms: angel, baby, beloved, dear, dear one, dearest, dearie, flame, friend, girlfriend, heart's desire, honey, honey bun, honeybunch, jewel, lamb, love, loved, loveling, lover, pearl, pet, precious, princess, spoiled child, sugar, sweet, sweetie, sweetie-pie, treasure, truelove
Antonyms: enemy, foe, rival

Main Entry: lady
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: woman
Synonyms: adult, babe, bag, baroness, bitch, broad, butterfly, contessa, countess, dame, doll, duchess, empress, female, gal, gentlewoman, girl, little woman, mama, mare, matron, missus, mistress, noblewoman, old bag, old lady, old woman, petticoat, princess, queen, queen bee, rib, squaw, sultana, weaker sex
Antonyms: man

Main Entry: monarch
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ruler
Synonyms: autocrat, crowned head, despot, emperor, empress, king, majesty, potentate, prince, princess, queen, sovereign

Main Entry: noble
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: royal
Synonyms: archduchess, aristocrat, blue blood, bluestocking, countess, empress, gentlewoman, lace curtain, lady, noblewoman, patrician, peer, princess, royalty, silk stocking, upper-cruster

Main Entry: ruler
Part of Speech: noun 1
Definition: boss
Synonyms: adjudicator, big shot, boss, captain, chief, chieftain, commander, controller, crowned head, director, emperor, empress, governor, head, king, kingpin, leader, lord, manager, master, mastermind, monarch, patriarch, potentate, prince, princess, queen, reeve, regent, senior, sovereign
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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The Princess Syndrome

gardens

project 1:


civic square, new brunswick, nj



buccleuch park, new brunswick, nj

unconscious sight

BBC: zen psychology
National Geographic: zen psychology

The mind is very flexible if we practice flexibility. This ability to think flexibly is useful in ordinary life and in the pursuit of Zen.

What do you see in the garden?

Some people see hills with their peaks poking above the clouds.
Some people see tigers crossing a river.
Some people see islands rising from the sea.
Some see a lake or heaven itself.
Some people see only rocks.



Modern life is full of distractions. Our minds weren't built to absorb all the information coming at us. Even when these temples were built, the outside city life was busy and full of entertaining distractions. At breakfast, we think of work. At work we think of going home; while going home we plan our weekend. How much time do we spend right now, right where we are?

Visiting a garden with a few rocks in it gives our mind just enough information to feel comfortable. Here we can train our mind to stop jumping about from one unrelated subject to another. In this way, it is similar to the breath counting meditation. Calming the mind, like calming water, allows the dirt to settle, and the water to clear.

moss garden, tofuku-ji, kyoto



bottlecaps, garbage displaced. natural.
rock formations, earth in concrete. becomes natural.

everything zen.

1. Life means suffering.

2. The origin of suffering is attachment.

3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.

4. There is a path to the cessation of suffering.





The self is composed of five parts, forever changing.

Zen Buddhism:
When you think of yourself, you feel like a separate, permanent thing. Actually "self" is a thing that is in five parts and constantly changing. These changes happen many times a second and cause you to see things incorrectly, which in turn causes you to make bad decisions. The five parts that make "you" are:

1. Your body and the sense organs. These create the next part . . .

2. Sensations. Pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feelings.

3. Conceptualization. This is where you turn your body's raw data into ideas. Your delusion becomes evident here. The raw data could be perceived in many different ways. Your existing karma Mental imprints created by the volitional thoughts and acts of a deluded mind, prejudices and feelings filter the data and cause you to have incorrect perceptions. For example, if you are angry and someone unrelated walks in, you will quickly find fault in them regardless of their behaviour. This is why no one wants to see the boss when they are in a bad mood. We know that whatever we show them will not be well received regardless of its value. The process of avoiding the boss then, is an acknowledgement that we believe people's behaviour is sometime irrational because of their inability to see things objectively. Buddhism merely extends this idea by saying we are always deluded, on some level, by desire, anger and ignorance, so our behaviour too is inappropriate. A popular idea in psychology is that insane people's behaviour is usually correct from the point of view of the distorted world they perceive. This is close to the Buddhist concept.

4. Will, mental acts, or mental formations. Volition, attention, discrimination, happiness, resolve, compulsion, concentration

5. Consciousness of self.

You exist. Don't let anyone tell you don't. Trendy philosophers sometimes like to say nothing is real or that they don't really exist. If someone thinks they don't exist, ask them to hurt themselves, or give you all their money. They won't do it because they know deep down that they are real.

On the other hand, it's true that you don't exist in a meaningful, permanent, separate way. It is like a wave. When a wave travels across the ocean, it appears to be a separate, moving object. Actually it is just energy making water bump the water next to it. Most of the water in a wave traves only a few feet. So you could say that a wave doesn't really exist, but there is merely an energy transfer happening. On the other hand, this information won't help if you are surfing and get dumped. You will truly believe in the wave when you wipe out. So what Buddhism is saying is, you exist, you are just not as separate or consistent as you thought.

Western philosophy hangs a lot on the idea, "I think, therefore I am".
Zen however says: "I think I am, therefore I become."


About Zen

Zen gardens

Four Noble Truths

see the constellations ride across the sky

I think the clouds are something like people. Fast moving and changing—ever-changing. Temperamental, I suppose that’s one of the reasons why we’re so unreliable sometimes, unreliable in the sense that we’re always moving, always changing. There’s something beautiful about that though. I was sitting out on the porch just now looking at the clouds after the rain. They were moving so fast; there were gaps, speeding gaps, as the gray wisps parted to reveal the pink clouds of sunset behind them. Like fog in front of a canvas. It makes you glad you were there to see it. I guess that’s why it’s so nice when you meet certain people and have those rare moments, because that’s what you know they are—just moments. Fleeting moments. And you should be so glad you met them at the time you did.

I’m afraid of changing, but there might not be much of anything to fear, no fear of the death card. It can just mean new beginnings.

I saw my future crystal clear just now for some reason. The future seems so far off, so distant and unsure. Time is in moments; you forget sometimes that the future when present will move just as it does now, slowly. There will be time. I was staring at the white wooden post of our porch and pictured that someday it could be just like that, on my own porch, the cars going by in the rain, that quiet and still. It’ll be like that sometimes, too. There will be down time, there will always be time to reconsider and sit. What do we have to fear?

Perhaps because the clouds are so fleeting we look to the stars. But I think there’s something joyous in both.




Current book: Global Brain by Howard Bloom
Current sound: Jess's ring and Heroes by David Bowie

constellate

Constellations: the Fairy Tale vs. the Web

We have been storytelling for ages, from the Old Testament to Grimm?s Fairy Tales to Walt Disney. Ten thousand years ago, people began to name and number the stars to make sense of themselves and the heavens, and today still spend a few minutes pondering their fate via zodiac over a cup of coffee and a bagel.
In the grand world of storytelling, I?ve grown up preoccupied with fairy tales?-particularly the sugarcoated ones of Disney-- and recently taken to wonder why we are raised on happy endings when so few in life achieve anything near this ideal for long. Life is anything but endings, just chapters to be rewritten and rebuilt upon later. This is one of the reasons why web art and open-source material seem like such positive creative outlets. The entire web is a history book in flux, and everyone is writing themselves into the pages. The web has opened a relatively neutral playground of anonymity, with the power to publish and broadcast easily accessible, unlike most regulated forms of mass media. In this information age, the database has become a new way to tell a tale, create a character and perhaps learn a lesson. As an artist, I am interested in new ways of storytelling, to fill the holes in the conventional plot lines and fill-out the stock characters. Our stories are forever changing; the fairy tale in so many ways is naive and outdated. For these reasons, I am interested in work that is interactive in experience, particularly net-based art and video installation, creating environments in both actual and virtual reality. As an avid collector of just about any and everything under the sun, I am intrigued by the narratives that can be derived from the juxtapositions of random objects and artifacts to reveal personal histories.
I am also fascinated by the idea of science and nature. The fact that most things broken down far enough to the atomic level are all made up of relatively the same material is astounding. It questions what the difference truly is between the natural and artificial. We are in a time where new technologies are being pioneered before our eyes, and the general public is hesitant to remove the boundaries drawn between the known and this new foreign frontier. I am interested in the area where these lines begin to blur. The development of science is an ongoing exploration, creating new constellations. I believe we need to overcome the fairy tale sentiment which has been ingrained within our minds in childhood and accept it as just another vignette, just another metaphor from which to learn and expand. Our beliefs from religion to politics to fairy tale endings speak in black and white but in practice the world is anything but.

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