Every photograph should be, in a sense, a picture of Arcadia – “an area of central Greece whose inhabitants legendarily enjoyed their music and dancing undisturbed by war and toil … [where there was] age-old rapport between people and deities – ‘the spirits of the place.’”
The Chinese Tiantai School of Buddhism (transmitted to Japan as the Tendai School) believed that “even non-sentient beings have Buddha-Nature.” All matter is Spirit: Spirit and matter are one. And to declare this Truth is a basic role of the photographer as healer: to proclaim for us that this rock, this tree, whatever, is Spirit as matter.
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