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Because you think your time or your being is not truth, you believe that the sixteen-foot golden body is not you. However, your attempts to escape from being the sixteen-foot golden body are nothing but bits and pieces of the time-being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— “Uji,” Eihei D\u014dgen (1200-1253)<\/p>\n

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Digital pinhole photograph, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because you think your time or your being is not truth, you believe that the sixteen-foot golden body is not you. However, your attempts to escape from being the sixteen-foot golden body are nothing but bits and pieces of the time-being. — “Uji,” Eihei D\u014dgen (1200-1253)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,89],"tags":[67,66,93,34,52,94,96,95],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-thoughts-and-ideas","tag-67","tag-buddhism","tag-dogen","tag-manhattan","tag-photography","tag-pinhole","tag-shobogenzo","tag-uji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zpKF-bL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":765,"url":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2016\/12\/pinhole-research-december-chill\/","url_meta":{"origin":729,"position":0},"title":"Pinhole research – December chill","author":"John Azelvandre","date":"December 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I've recently started up again with some explorations in digital pinhole photography. \u00a0How this works is: you take a digital SLR, take off the lens and replace it with a modified body cap that serves as the 'pinhole.' \u00a0(I don't recall where I purchased the pinhole cap, but if you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pinhole-1-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pinhole-1-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pinhole-1-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pinhole-1-1024x1024.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1114,"url":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2021\/11\/true-refuge-a-photography-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":729,"position":1},"title":"True Refuge – a photography project","author":"John Azelvandre","date":"November 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope everyone is enjoying the lovely fall weather we've been having. 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