Tadao Ando's Head Buddha: Lonely Fang looks at the real world, introspection and a new life
Author: Rong Zhenhuan
Recently, I visited Japan, and the itinerary was very full, from morning to night, so the book review has not been updated. Thank you for your understanding.
Yesterday, I came to the cemetery in Sapporo, Japan, The Manju Uchi Takino Cemetery Park.
The purpose is to run to the "Head Buddha" project.
Some people may have heard of this project, but it is definitely not as strong as coming to the scene to give you a strong shock.
In addition, I would like to say that this Buddha was not designed by Ando, this Buddha originally existed, and it is not different from other Buddhas in Japan.
However, it is a very mediocre work, and it is also a very mediocre existence.
Later, the owner of the cemetery found Ando, who wanted to build a park for the opening of the cemetery's 30th anniversary. At the same time, we want to transform the Giant Buddha as the center and transform it into a Hokkaido landmark.
This is a typical propositional essay, and it is quite difficult to play a bad card into a good card.
So, Ando is the finishing touch on mediocre projects.
Ando had an idea from the beginning: "Hopefully this is not a dark place, hopefully it's a bright place where children will come to play." ”
Then he chose to bury the Buddha.
Tadao Ando's approach is to raise hills around the Buddha statue, hide it except for the top of the head, and plant lavender on the hillside.
"Buried, it shows size." Ando said.
After that, the effect was obvious, as the owner of the cemetery had originally envisioned, and the place where the living were sacrificed was now a representative of the sacred and the light.
Ando has "equality" in his heart, the equality of man, the equality of religion, the equality of nature, the equality of all things.
In Ando's heart, even in the darkest and most helpless cemetery, there can be absolute light.
Light can also grow in the shadows, for all things are equal.
Today, the Big Head Buddha is still standing there alone, cold and lonely.
Perhaps, sitting alone with the Great Buddha for a while, you will not only change your view of the Buddha, but also change your understanding of yourself. Well, you may well have started a new life.
The lonely side looks at the real world, and introspection has a new life.
An idea can make nothing to everything, and can make the bland into an incomparable magic.
From mundane to masterpiece, it is actually a step away.
However, this step requires a hundred steps of precipitation and unremitting efforts.
You have to work really hard to look effortless.
Ando is self-taught, non-academic, has no teacher, and can only learn through extensive reading and travel, on the contrary, life is his teacher, in this sense, Ando has the most teachers.
Ando once mentioned an interesting story: when he told his grandmother about his determination to travel to Europe, her grandmother said, "Money is not for saving." Money is valuable when it is used well on one's own body. This powerful sentence made Ando go abroad with a carefree mood. Then, in the four years before the establishment of the firm, Ando traveled as long as he had saved enough money. As my grandmother said, the memory of traveling in his twenties became an irreplaceable asset for the rest of his life.
In the book "Architect Tadao Ando", it is mentioned that:
For forty years, Tadao Ando has never been a non-college-born architect who has no name, who can only lie on the floor of the office in a daze, roll around, and look for open space to think about architectural styles, and is still an architect who has been vying to hire teachers for the architecture departments of universities around the world and leaving behind various architectural works integrated into the natural environment around the world.
Ando said: A person's true happiness is not to stay in the light. Gazing at the light from a distance, running towards it, it is in that time of desperately forgetting oneself that there is a real fullness in life.