Ghosts Become Ancestors

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Ghosts Become Ancestors

2025
Fabric/monk's kesa (meditation robe), burnt Japanese cedar, brass 215cm/130cm Wood 245cm/34cm

Hans Loewold described the process of transforming haunting, unresolved psychological issues (ghosts) into symbolic, respected parts of one’s history (ancestors).The Buddhist meditation robe of preceptual knowledge is an implicit, often intuitive, understanding of the meditator to sit still within the disturbance and convert the haunting.To bow to ghosts without yielding. To have faith and begin to know a little of the protection of an ancestor.

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