無孔笛(Mukuteki)

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Year: May 2012
Medium: Katsura wood, gold leaf, acrylic paint
Artwork size: 90 × 34.5 × 2 cm
Frame size: 110 × 50 × 5.8 cm
Exhibition: 64th Mainichi Calligraphy Exhibition (2012), Members' Award

A flute without holes that cannot produce a sound. Figuratively, it signifies an exceptional teaching beyond words, free from attachment even to doctrines of impermanence. When a flute without holes, which cannot be sounded through reason or thought, produces a wondrous sound through the workings of truth, it becomes a Zen expression for truth beyond human knowledge and language, and the wondrous workings of Buddhist awakening. Zen teacher’s blog