Greetings

does anyone know, is there a references or other inscriptions about effects that has zen as a theme?

I once did an effect in a show using a TK Log demonstrating the power of one-hand clapping!

Punx had a routine about Buddha's beads, which you may be interested in.
Also search the Story telling forum under Spooky - Silvertongue strated a thread on Buddhist routines there if I'm not mistaken.
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It's not bizzare, but I think Darwin Ortiz has a zen card trick. If I remember correctly I loved the idea, but I didn't think the technique was quite simple and straight forward enough for the presentation.

Read up on Zen.

Quite a lot of it is bizarre already.

Just add an effect.

Bizarre is a style of presentation and can be on pretty much any subject.

The Haiku Book test.

You can use this as an intro:

The beauty of Japanese haiku poetry, inspired by Zen Buddhism, lies in the brevity of expression which conveys a world of meaning and emotions. While all haiku are not Zen, several prominent haiku poets, particularly Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694) and Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828), were Zen trained. Their haiku, and others of the Edo period of Japan, often centered on Buddhist themes, and under their influence this increasingly became true of haiku in general.

One of these Buddhist themes is transience or impermanence (annica), one of Buddhism's three marks of existence, as in these two examples:

Clouds appear
and bring to men a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.
Basho

A giant firefly:
that way, this way, that way, this -
and it passes by.
Issa


http://www.ronjo.com/magic/HAIKUBOOKTEST.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBcLqO8_DU

I have a presentation that I call, "Zen and Again". It is based on the Thieves & Sheep premise, but with colored cubes. At the end it solves and reveals the answer to one mystery, but leaves a larger mystery in its wake.

Vincent's Haiku is a pure little gem. Don't miss that one.

Pakar Ilusi:
I already read about zen, but I just want to be sure not to invent the wheel again :3

ALEXANDRE & curator:

wery nice, I <3 it
do you know if it can be translated into the finnish?


many thanks for the informations my comrads.

Couple more (not specifically Zen): Docc Hilford, 'The Whispering Buddha'; Neo Lama, 'Recognizing the Tulku (Lama) or Buddhist Equivoque' (in Kenton Knepper, Lasting Effects)

Show a little respect for the religion, never know when a Buddhist might be in the audience.

I was at a Buddhist pantomime once.
They kept shouting "He's beyond you!"

To be fair though, I won't **** around with the Muslims...