{"id":215,"date":"2019-11-06T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/?p=215"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:33:17","slug":"7-valley-of-poverty-nothingness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/2019\/11\/06\/7-valley-of-poverty-nothingness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley of Poverty &#038; Nothingness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-1-636x477.png\" alt=\"Blue sea, with a bird emerging from the depths amid waves.\" width=\"747\" height=\"560\" class=\"wp-image-254 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-1-636x477.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-1-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Artboard-1.png 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a>This scene depicts the Valley of Poverty\u00a0&amp; Nothingness, in which the pilgrim undergoes a Realization of God after being totally freed from its <i>self<\/i>. I made the image using Adobe Illustrator to digitize a hand-drawn sketch.\u00a0Here we see the six valleys which have preceded this one in darker green. The ocean, deep and blue, reflects the enormity of nothingness. A dark silhouette of a bird has sunk and \u201cin self-loss [has] obtain[ed] eternal rest\u201d. Similarly, another bird, more vivid in color, has \u201cemerged\u201d, knowing \u201cthe secret ways in which the world arose\u201d. The scene is deliberately devoid of a great many details to emphasise the emptiness of this place and its lack of distinctive features.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-215-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/VALLEY-7_mixdown-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/VALLEY-7_mixdown-1.mp3\">\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/VALLEY-7_mixdown-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Background music: Original composition for Santur and Daf\u00a0<\/em><em>by Danial Shariat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A note on the music: <\/em><em>&#8220;It starts with an atempo noise of Santur and Daf before becoming a slow and solemn march. The lack of excitement or complexity and frequent use of silence creates a feeling of desolation, but also peace, in the listener.&#8221;\u00a0(DS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This scene depicts the Valley of Poverty\u00a0&amp; Nothingness, in which the pilgrim undergoes a Realization of God after being totally freed from its self. I made the image using Adobe Illustrator to digitize a hand-drawn sketch.\u00a0Here we see the six valleys which have preceded this one in darker green. The ocean, deep and blue, reflects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}