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Preface

The following pages may be viewed as a small mirror, reflecting ancient Asian concepts of mind and body. Repeated three part segments are interwoven in the spirit of Buddhist psychology which is, simultaneously, an act of direct experience and a perception of the act: both doer and observer; both the understanding mind and the mind understood.

Visual koans in the form of dot-to-dots, together with brief excerpts or reflections of classical Oriental aphorisms and metaphors which the images represent; a brief interpretation of the teachings; and an integrated sequence of practical meditational thoughts are the repetitive forms selected for this interaction of hand, eye and mind.

Each set represents a step on an ordered path, leading from confusion to a centering of the self.