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Emptiness is Form (2000) — Scott Snibbe - Interactive Art

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Emptiness is Form, inspired by the Buddhist Heart Sutra, condenses a Buddha's sitting form from a field of stars, inspired by Thich Nhat Hahn's wisdom that "You are only made of non-you elements"

EMPTINESS IS FORM (2000) (video player) will replace this tag. --> Emptiness is Form refers to a Buddhist text called the Heart Sutra, which is the distillation of all teachings on Emptiness. Emptiness in Buddhism refers not to nothingness, but to the opposite: the interdependence of all phenomena, both mental and physical. In the case of physical phenomena, the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh explains, "You are only made of non-you elements." That is, your body is composed entirely of non-body parts: dirt, plants, previously decomposed bodies, stardust, and so on. Thinking about the human bod

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