Photography submission by JingChao Su:
"Perhaps it is because of the ethos of worshipping of Buddhism in the southern Fujian area where I live, or it may be due to a certain destiny, when I go out to photograph, I seem to have been able to meet Buddhas all the time in the past few years. Especially when I organize my own photos, I can more and more feel that the Buddha is everywhere in various forms and shows itself at random.
The year before last, Xiamen held the International Buddhist Supplies Exhibition. The square of the Convention Centre was magically lined with statues of Buddha waiting to be loaded and unloaded. I stood in the strong wind and waited until midnight, just to see how the solemn Buddha was hung in mid-air on a swing. In this situation, the Buddha is no longer as sacred as I imagined, it seems that it is just a commodity waiting to be moved at any time. There is a passage in Han Bingzhe’s book: “After entering a modern society, despite getting rid of the ruling institutions, religious discipline does not lead to freedom. Freedom and restraint were born almost at the same time. In a faulty social situation where people are prone to anomie behaviours, a new value system has happened to be formed -- people belong only to themselves, and people are racing to seek self-realization.”
We seem to run, dance, and play in the wilderness, but this “self-realization” is now dominated by capital and big data. Neoliberalism is disguised as poetry and distant places, but at the same time it reduces human’s body to a machine as the nomads of contemporary capital. We are still suffering from the impermanent..."
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