色卽是空 Being is from Not-Being and vice versa, Younggooksa Temple Youngdong Korea 2006

..indifference, oblivion, detachment, independence.. vanity.. hollowness.. those familiar words I bear..
'It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an Existence Natural or Real, distinct from their being perceived.' 1710 George Berkeley..

Esthetic Paradigm of "OLD" Korean, 榮國寺 Younggooksa Temple Youngdong Korea

Old Koreans who had been living here bit more than 100 years ago had admirable sense of aesthetics..
Pursuing harmony with surrounding nature, even pursuing balance among the components themselves, all the layout and arrangement of colors, lines, areas are well along with each and every constituents.

Nowadays in Korea however..
the descents are doing the thing in exactly opposite way.. shameful..

I love the openness of traditional Korean architecture. They tried to build house or garden as natural as possible minimizing the separation of people from nature. And they seriously took geographical positioning of the land into account for housing. Formation of mountain, river, and direction of sunshine are the major factors for consideration.