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Gwen's Hollow
Приєднався 28 сер 2011
hello ! i sometimes make videos about things that interest me ~
A Dream Song - All You Need
This is a snippet of melody that appeared in one of my recent dreams - it echoed through an abandoned stadium, which contained the ruins of memory: giant animal plushies, shadows of cars, giant board game pieces.
There were lyrics, something like "Oh - All you need: " - but I could never catch the end of it.
It's interesting to muse that, if there's a meaning encoded in here - an intimation of that which is needed, it might be a repetitious reminder of B-flat's pitch - a possible anchor for transfeminine voice training.
Anyway, I think it's a cute little fragment of music.
There were lyrics, something like "Oh - All you need: " - but I could never catch the end of it.
It's interesting to muse that, if there's a meaning encoded in here - an intimation of that which is needed, it might be a repetitious reminder of B-flat's pitch - a possible anchor for transfeminine voice training.
Anyway, I think it's a cute little fragment of music.
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The Heart Sutra Explained in 11 Minutes
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Have you ever wanted to fast-track your journey to Enlightenment? This short video will show you everything you need to know. : A visual semiological analysis of the radical components of the Heart Sutra and primer on Han Characters.
Sherlock Vatican Cameos - For Three Clarinets
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Arrangement of Sherlock "Vatican Cameos" theme for Clarinet Trio
Experiment #8 - Dulong and Petit
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A experimental description of the Dulong and Petit law of Thermodynamics. Demonstration of method for finding the molar specific heat capacity of metals.
Goodnight, Irene - For Three Clarinets
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Written by the 1930's, arranged by me.
This is so fine. Thank you Gwen. Also, thanks for the Heart Sutra video. ❤
of course ! I'm so happy you liked it !
Awesome
So all things are permitted because nothing matters. Interesting premise.
somewhat facetiously, I'd say Buddhists might claim the exact opposite: nothing is permitted because everything matters !
Of course you used Japanese, because “eye roll”.
It’s almost like you say Han because you don’t want to say Chinese, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It’s almost like characters existed before the Han dynasty, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Your attitude and projections are funny ! This is a video about religious and linguistic transmission across the whole of Asia. I use the word Han to accurately denote 漢字 - this is how Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese people refer to these characters. Using “Chinese” here would be a misnomer. As is explained in the video, Japanese is used because out of all the countries practicing Buddhism, the 般若心経 receives the most practice and devotion there. By extension, I chose to discuss the 般若心経 because it is the shortest sutra and fits most easily into the timespan of a UA-cam video. I hope that helps!
The Holy Dalai Lama introduced the Maha Mantra, Tayatha Gate Gate, Paragate, Parasum Gate Boddhi Swaha. Say this mantra everyday. You will then experience and understand everything and nothing. 🙏
amazingly peaceful presentation, sharing and beautiful calligraphy!!! could you pleasse note the source of the buddhist sites map? edit: found in wiki
Fantastic video, thank you for sharing.
The time is now. The war ends this month. No more war no more killing. Namaste -Vishnu
Thank you for your explanation. But I found the drums in the background to be distracting and unnecessary.
It is fascinating how much this works in Han characters given we have sanskirt orginals that were not written in this kind of writing system. It's kind of amazing how this works here.
Good to see you upload, Gwen!
thank you! it's nice to be back !
This is absolutely incredible! I had no idea about how the written language works. I am blown away. Thank you!!!!
Amazing video! Are you on any social medias where we can follow?
Yes! i have a twitter account @GwensHollow - although i apologize in advance that i never really tweet anything of substance
thank you so much for this!! knowing Chinese and then being presented these images make it more difficult to understand haha
Yes! That was one of the intentions of this process - the hope was that by defamiliarizing hanzi for Chinese speakers, they too would be able to engage with the sutra in a new way
the heart sutra is not a puzzle for the mind. It is a lightning that can struck you if you are at the right space at the right time. by the way - Gate Gate doesn't mean go go, it means gone gone. Gone, gone, completely gone, gone without a single trace.
I respectfully disagree - "puzzles" and mystery are well attested yāna in the Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna schools and within practices such as 公案
KAN VI ZAI BO SA GYO
BRILLIANT thank you for sharing this
prajnaparamita = present awareness (padmasambhava)☸️
there is explained and there is explained away, this one is explained away, then there is also to experience it, true explanation is not in this egoic grasping and explanations, but actually studying under a proper meditation teacher from a proper lineage and experience the sutra. Correct me if I am wrong
The Teaching of 《Heart Sutra》🙏💕🙏 ua-cam.com/video/qllOX8pYcNk/v-deo.htmlsi=z35EBkdPFuVQkz8x
prajnaparamita = wisdom perfection= present awareness. gone gone supergone ultrasupergone awakening so be.
Woman("horse") Mother seems very silly, but also somehow a really good description of semantic-phonetic compounds
your handwriting is not bad. however, i would recommend to hald the pen like a brush. i know this is some kind of penbrush you are using.
I sang that at the SF Zen Center when practicing there. Good moments.
Thank you!❤️
Thanks for the video and explanations. Where did you learn about the translation from?
I studied Japanese, Mandarin, and Buddhism in college - I used these three areas of study to help me produce my own translation !
Thanks for sharing, as a Manderin speaker with basic undersanding of Heart Sutra, I see on Yourtube Manderin version "般若波羅蜜多心經-唸誦 by bell1957" and Sanskrit version"般若波羅蜜多心經-梵文(悉曇) 梵音(黃慧音) by 愛橘地" for your interest. I have to say whether reading the words or listening to Japanese or Manderin or Sankrit, the overwhlem energy flow to me is similar, I have goose bump. probably because I feel the meaning behind.
Thank you so much for these recommendations! I am happy to hear you liked the video :)
@GwensHollow I hope you see this comment. Thank you for the video and analysis. I am from India and I know intermediate Sanskrit. Your video has made me mad about learning Chinese/Buddhist texts. I am impressed by your Sanskrit too. Can you please recommend any books that I can read to learn Chinese from Sanskrit (especially Buddhist texts)? Thanks
thank you so much for your comment! I am so happy to hear you enjoyed the video. This is probably not a perfect answer - but here you can find a PDF which annotates the heart sutra in English. It makes reference to both Sanskrit and Han Characters. It might work as an initial resource for you to get started with before finding others : drive.google.com/file/d/1oK4VYRQIdGeXN607whCoonxVu_9WIbSR/view?usp=sharing
Thank you for this ❤
I am here because of the 2019 movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters Ghidorah's theme from the film has the heart sutra chanting!
Thanks for the effort for explained very hard topic🎉
I'm curious, would this work the same in Tibetan characters?
I'm not sure! I am not an expert in Tibetan script - from what I understand, the script is an alphabet which functions a little like a syllabary; this would necessarily function quite differently from the logographic writing system of Chinese and perhaps not produce quite the same level of semantic layering. However, I might imagine that some semantic layering might still exist !
@@GwensHollow It would be awesome to know, let's hope someone who knows Tibetan reads this and can confirm. I need that info for a book I'm working on... but I don't speak or read Tibetan, so I'm a bit lost. This was so interesting though!
Nonetheless - all the effort - of those interested - in Lord Buddha - and after 5 decades of meditation (Zen/Raja Yoga) - one comes to the clear realisation that the Enlightened One - was/is purer and more simple - than all the explanations - for His existence and and His work. Some work from the 1940's in Raja Yoga - is being released - for the new re-understanding - of Lord Buddha's real worth. May it be so. Fare thee well.
Very Intriguing explanation of a sutra at the heart of Mahayana Buddhism. Thanks for sharing this approach ❤
I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed it !
It has just become one of my favourite UA-cam videos
I'm so happy that you enjoyed it !
Gassho
Poor translation...
Do better then Kevin lol
You are obviously very creative and of refined taste. The announcer of this video is very intelligent and may actually understand the import of the Heart Sutra. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you so much for your kind words ! I am glad you enjoyed it :)
What an awesome presentation!
I believe this video is a joke, clickbait. You can even see Marijuana at 7:15
Thanks for your comment, thesecret111 ! I wouldn't deny that the title has elements of "clickbait" (although I do think the video ends up fulfilling the essential claims of its title). As for leaf at 7:15, that image was chosen as a representation of the character component 麻 (meaning "hemp"), which is a radical of the character 摩 - itself a component of the sinitic rendering of महा, 摩訶. Hopefully that helps to clear things up! I can certainly understand your confusion
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This is really quite remarkable! I studied Buddhism and calligraphy in Japan back in the 1970s. I also had a year of Mandarin before that. I've struggled many times to explain the construction of Chinese characters, and this explanation is the best I've ever seen. It is concise and understandable to someone completely unfamiliar with Chinese. Nicely done. The filming of the brush is also very well done -- up close, steady, not jumping around -- the viewer can see how the brush is used to make the various strokes. I appreciated the beauty of the writing as well. The last part, attempting to associate photo images with the characters, didn't really work for me. It is a terrific idea, don't get me wrong, but it's a little like Freud's dream interpretation: a train going through a tunnel means something very different to a railroad engineer than to a teenager who witnessed a train derailment. I'm not sure what any of the photos meant (especially the water shooting out of the girl's mouth, what was that?) The concept is really good, but I think photos are too open to interpretation to convey particular meanings. As part of my master's degree in psychology, I did an introspective study comparing my own reading of written Chinese to conversations in American sign language. They are both visual forms of language that can be understood without reference to speaking. Watching someone sign the characters would be really cool, (provided, of course, one could understand sign language!) amused
Thank you so much for your comment! I am glad you hear that you enjoyed the primer of Han characters and my brushwork :) I'm happy to hear that the Visual Semiological Analysis portion called to mind Freudian psychoanalysis for you! What a wonderful connection to make. As I've written elsewhere, in another comment, the images in this video are intended as a way to open the text's ultimate meanings to learners via a secondary, non-literal route; the thesis of the latter half, such that it is, would be that intuitive understandings of the connection between Form and Emptiness might be probed through over-analysis of the text until semantic value is rendered vacant As for the mouth spitting water, that was my visual representation of the phonetic radical 咅 from the character 菩, which radical carries the meaning of "to spit out". All of the images represent the meanings of individual radicals in the same way Your idea about ASL and Chinese is an interesting one! I'd love to see that project done
I am a Buddhist illustrator and I was doing some research on the Heart Sutra because I wanted it to be the subject for an upcoming illustration I am working on. I found your video and it was so informative, beautiful, and compassion driven! I heard this sutra chanted for years in Vietnamese. it was so insightful to hear your thoughts! Thank you!
I am so grateful for your comment and I am very happy to hear you enjoyed it!
Where do you publish your work? I'd like to see
What you did is so impressive and valuable! Huge thanks!
You will learn nothing of the meaning of the Heart Sutra watching this video. You will sadly only be guided into mistaking the pointing finger for the moon. The author should be ashamed.
I'm sorry to hear you couldn't see the moon! Most of Shakyamuni's 舎利子 couldn't discern what was meant by the twirling of his flower either. There is no shame in that.
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Yeah if you don't get it you're not gonna get it from UA-cam. Don't blame the messengers for your lack.of clarity.
Where can I get a copy in liturgical Japanese I have a Gongyo book in that
This is a link to a PDF copy of the full text of the sutra, plus a full explanation in 現代語: www.nhk-fdn.or.jp/han/pdf/hannyashingyou.pdf I hope it's helpful!
I had hoped by watching this to undertand what is the meaning of this sutra. It seems to me that people just chant it without really understanding what it is teaching. That submerges profound Buddhist teachings down to the realm of superstition!
I think you raise a really interesting point! It is true that because of the complex linguistic meldings of the sutra, many practitioners do not actually "know" what they are saying - not on the most literal level, at least. One of the things I wanted to suggest in the video, however, is that even if practitioners do not understand the literal words they are saying - I think they still might be able to access deeper meanings of the words and still engage with its ultimate messages of Form and Emptiness.
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Wonderful work! Thank you for your elaboration.
I'm so glad to hear you liked it!