影 · A small archive
Open Stream
A handful of contemplative films already living in the open — pointed to the way one passes along the name of a quiet river.
“Outwardly engage in no activity; inwardly the mind is not panting after anything. When the mind is like a wall, you may enter the Way.”
Bodhidharma
- 01
YouTube · external link
Tibet, the Path to Wisdom
A contemplative journey into Tibetan spiritual life — wandering, devotion, silence, and the fragile survival of ancient traditions.
- 02
YouTube · external link
Red Pine · An earlier passage
A rare portrait connected to Bill Porter — Red Pine — whose life moves between translation, Chinese poetry, Buddhism, Taoism and the search for hermits.
Best watched together with the later passage below — two moments from different seasons of the same long pilgrimage.
“Tao does not exhaust itself in what is great, nor is it absent from what is small. The pilgrim and the page are made of the same quietness.”
A reflection in the spirit of Chuang Tzu
- 03
YouTube · external link
Red Pine · A later passage
A second window onto the same field. Years later — the translator, the pilgrim, the seeker of old Chinese wisdom, quieter and weathered, still listening for what the ancients left behind.
A note on stewardship
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“The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap.”
Chuang Tzu