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Pure light is all colors.
Therefore, it has no hue.
Only when singleness is scattered
Does color appear.
When we see pure sunlight streaming down on us, it is a pure radiance so bright that we can discern neither details nor hues from its source. But when light strikes the gossamer wings of a dragonfly, or when it shines through misty rain, or even when it shines on the surface of our skin, it is polarized into millions of tiny rainbows. The world explodes with color because all the myriad surfaces and textures fracture the light into innumerable, overlapping dimensions.
The same is true of Tao. In its pure state, it embodies everything. Thus, it shows nothing. Just as pure light has all colors yet shows no color, so too is all existence initially latent and without differentiation in Tao. Only when Tao enters our world does it explode into myriad things. We say that everything owes its existence to Tao. But really, these things are only refractions of the great Tao.
Colored light, when mixed together, becomes pure, bright light again. That is why those who follow Tao constantly speak of returning. They unify all areas of their lives and unify all distinctions into a whole. There cannot be diversity within unity. When our consciousness rejoins the true Tao, there is only brightness, and all color disappears.
spectrum
365 Tao
Deng Ming-Dao
Daily Meditations
Solar
Spectrum
Environmental
art
ArteSolareAmbientale
Secrets
oft
he Sun:
Millennial
Meditations
What
is Secrets
of the
Sun?
Secrets
of the
Sun
is a
new,
interactive
Solar
art
medium
for
the
twenty-first
century.
It uses natural Sunlight and
laser-cut flat prisms to spread huge splashes of natural rainbow color
across interior spaces. Viewers/participants actually walk inside a rainbow.
They become living canvases as millions of changing colors flow across
their bodies, mixing and creating colored shadows on the walls, floor and
other visitors. The Rainbow is a symbol of hope and a source of joy for
all cultures. Secrets of the Sun has deep universal appeal to people of
all ages and backgrounds.
How it works:
Employing a heliostat --
Solar tracking mirror -- Erskine uses the light of the Sun, 93,000,000
miles away, as his subject matter, art medium, and energy source. Intercepted
some eight minutes later by the heliostat, the "white light" of the Sun
is bent by a high-tech prism that pour the Sun's natural vibrant colors
into interior spaces.
PeterErskine
http://www.erskinesolarart.net/index.html
mail:
petererskine@earthlink.net
Italy
"New
Light
on Rome
2000"
Solar
Spectrum
Environmental
Art
installations
in five
ancient
Roman
sites
Aula
arch
in spectrum
sunlight,
Trajan's
Market,
Rome,
112AD.