To "be" is to surrender to the space between: the intersection of Buddhist art and Bushin Dereliction™.

A Buddha from the Heian period quietly resides in our house.
His face is no longer recognizable, and he has no arms or legs. The body, carved from a single piece of wood, has melted into the flow of time, and is clad in an air of "melted-down".
And yet - or perhaps because of this - there is a deep calmness and power of serenity in the figure.

My encounter with this Buddha was love at first sight.
He happened to acquire it through an acquaintance who is an art dealer. It is not a Buddhist altar, but rather an extension of his daily life, a "margin for prayer.

Old Buddhist statues of different ages stand quietly here and there in the house.
They are not art objects, but are like models of "being" in a space.
They do not speak. They are simply there to tell us what they want us to know.

It occurs to me.
This sensitivity can be seen in the martial arts, the tea ceremony - and in Busshin Deriki™.

No effort, no arrangement, just being naturally.
It is the attitude of leaving things to the "in-between" and that is where beauty is born.

I put it in these words.

To be is to leave it to the in-between.
Beauty is about blending in between.
Immerse yourself in the infinite expanse.

This word is the crystallization of the sensations I received from the statue, from the space, from the breath.
It is not "nothingness. It is not empty.
It is something that fills the silence - something that exists like a breath, like a prayer, like the wind.

The same spirit lives in the margins of Lee Ufan, the black of Tomoharu Murakami, and the architecture of Peter Zunto.
Quiet, strong, not controlled by anyone, not fighting with anyone, just the strength to "be".

Busshin Dereki™ is a rebooting of the body, a dissolution into space, a way to blot out the contours of the ego.
It is a figure that, like the Buddha statue, "still exists in the process of being chipped away.

Now, I want to live my life while carefully nurturing this sensitivity.
I want the place of instruction, the space, even the words, all to be a pause, a structure for immersion in silence.

And today, again, I breathe quietly in front of the Buddha statue.
Gently immerse yourself in this "infinite expansion".