MANJUSHRI
A wooden statue, formerly on the altar of the Maui Zendo.
The last sentence is adapted from a short dialogue in Robert Aitken’s “Selections from Coyote Roshi Goroku,” Coyote’s Journal, Wingbow, 1982.
JEROME
“Dürer’s engraving”: St. Jerome, 1514.
THE ANNUNCIATION
I have taken the idea in the last paragraph from Rilke’s early poem “Verkündigung.”
TAO-CHI
Bird Watching, watercolor in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. See Marilyn Fu and Wen Fong’s excellent The Wilderness Colors of Tao-chi, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973.
SPINOZA
Several facts in the description of Spinoza are taken from Johannes Colerus’s biography (1706).
ZEN MASTER
A doll, modeled after Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, by Cassandra Light.
COURTESY
“Brutus…”: This gesture is movingly noticed in Hofmannsthal’s essay “Shakespeare’s Kings and Noblemen,” translated by Tania and James Stern, in Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Selected Prose, Pantheon, 1952.
FOUR WATERCOLORS BY TAO-CHI
All four are reproduced in The Wilderness Colors of Tao-chi.
Lakeside Geese
A monk asked Tung-shan, “How can one escape from heat and cold?”
The Master said, “Why don’t you go to a place where there is neither heat nor cold?”
The monk said, “What kind of place is that?”
The Master said, “When it is hot, you die of heat. When it is cold, you die of cold.”
(The Recorded Dialogues of Ch’an Master Tung-shan Liang-chieh)
Wilderness Cottage
In this section I have borrowed extensively from Tao-chi’s Notes on Painting.
PICASSO
1: Sculptor and Reclining Model by a Window Viewing a Sculptured Head and Drinking Minotaur and Reclining Woman.
2: Young Sculptor at Work. The three etchings are reproduced in Picasso for Vollard, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1956.
SPIRITUAL TEACHING
“One day…”: From The Recorded Dialogues of Ch’an Master Chao-chou Ts’ung-shen.
THE GIFT
The sculpture is from the Citragupta Temple, Khajuraho. See Heinrich Zimmer, The Art of Indian Asia, Pantheon, 1955, vol. 2, plate 318.
VERMEER
Young Woman With a Water Jug, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.