Cecil Touchon - Scores
MEDITATIONS
MEDITATION-001
Film several minutes of a waterfall
Create a film twenty
minutes
long of the water falling in slow motion. Submit to film festivals.
1979
MEDITATION-002
Go
into the very
large drain pipe.
Make vowel sounds held
during the duration of your
breath.
1978
MEDITATION-003
Stare at a set of closed
blinds
on the west side of your house while the sun goes down.
Sustain until
dark.
Maintain concentration.
1977
MEDITATION-004
Find a painting in your
house.
Remove.
Stare at the nail in the wall for 20 minutes.
Try not to blink or loose
your concentration.
1977
Note: observe the
workings of your
mind as it tries to figure out why your just sitting there.
MEDITATION-005
Sit on a chair in a room
with a tile
floor.
Pick a spot on the floor stare at it for 25 minutes.
MEDITATION-006
Sit in a field of grass
on a perfectly
calm day. Pick a spot and stare at it for 20 minutes without changing
your focal point.
1975
Notes: watch in you
peripheral vision
how the grass moves itself.
MEDITATION-007
Calculate the number of
days that you
have been alive. Carefully gesso an appropriately sized canvas or
panel.
Using a marking system (brush, pen, pencil, etc.) Place successive
individual
marks on the ground equivalent in number to the days that you have been
alive up until that day.
1976
MEDITATION-008
- (Bodhi Mind)
Have a very large
bowl-like container
fabricated out of stone, concrete, metal, etc. Vessel should be 36 to
60
inches in diameter and about 18 inches to 24 inches deep and filled
with
water to the brim. Calculate the approximate evaporation rate of the
vessel.
From the ceiling, hopefully a 12 feet or higher ceiling, install a
device
that allows water to drip into the center of the vessel at about the
same
rate as the water is evaporating.
Once constructed and functioning meditate daily on the activity in the
basin.
1983
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