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The Power Issue 2019 Spiral THE POWER ISSUE Quiet the mind, Whip smart: When magic Jeremy activate the Kasia Urbaniak and warfare Heimans: spirit with Kate on female met in New Power to Johnson empowerment Buddhism the people POWER UP WHERE DOES TRUE POWER LIE? intention and reinforce those of others. Your answer likely depends on your You don’t have to be at the Museum to definition of power and whether you participate; virtual visitors will be able feel you have it or not. At the Rubin to send their intentions online by visit- we’ve come to see power as relation- ing our website. al, as a potential within and between us. Throughout 2019, we’ll be exploring Turn the pages of Spiral and explore these themes through a Buddhist lens ideas about power through personal via exhibitions, public programming, and essays, original poetry, and illustra- Spiral, our annual magazine. tion. Learn how to get in touch with your power animal (yes, you have one, The exhibition Faith and Empire shows maybe two) and how game developers how art, politics, and even magic came get you hooked on power to keep you together over the centuries to shape pushing on to the next level. Peruse Tibetan Buddhism and create an unex- our first advice column for ideas on pected system of power. Though we balanced relationships, discover how often associate Buddhism with peace- power changes your brain, and behold ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ful, meditative acts, the truth is more power objects through the eyes of con- complicated. Wars were fought in temporary artists Marina Abramović Buddha’s name; secret rituals enacted. and Sanford Biggers, among others. We would like to thank Annie Melia, Jason We would also like to Ann and Matthew Published by the Incarnation was used to legitimize pow- the many people who Nunes, Professor thank a generous group Nimetz Rubin Museum of Art, er (who would dare challenge a bodhi- Join us at the Rubin this year—as well have made this publica- Sukhvinder Obhi, of donors for their Gerry Ohrstrom February 2019 sattva?) and to empower the universal as online and in these pages—and dis- tion possible: Kembra Pfahler, support as Rubin Deven and ruler. Even sorcery played an import- cover what power means to you. Lisa Ross, Robert members at the $5,000 Monika Parekh Editor and Publications ant role, and magical techniques were Marina Abramović, Jay Ross, Jia Sung, level and above, as of Rasika and Girish Reddy Manager: Sarah developed to destroy rival armies and Parvez Ahmad, Rahaab Kasia Urbaniak, Ben November 15, 2018: Basha Frost Rubin and Zabrodski their gods on the battlefield. Allana, Lama Tsultrim Venom, Saymoukda Scott Grinsell Allione, Stephanie Duangphouxay Akhoury Foundation Shelley and Editorial Consultant: Today, we’re fighting a different kind Berger, Sanford Biggers, Vongsay, Jack Waters, Bob and Lois Baylis Donald Rubin Howard Kaplan of battle. We live in an age where the Allison Brainard, Monika and Maya Yearwood. Ariane Dannasch Tom Sawyer definition of truth is being questioned. Bravo, Katy Brennan, Anne E. Delaney Eileen Caulfield Schwab Creative Director: Deep within Buddhism is the notion that Cathy Linh Che, Aashish and Dinyar Barbara and Harvey Andrea Pemberton speaking truth can bring about trans- Jorrit Britschgi Ching-In Chen, E.V. Devitre Sigelbaum formation. At the Rubin and in these Executive Director Day, Lisa Fernandez, Jennifer and Robert Jon Stryker Art Director and pages we’ll look at artists speaking truth Rubin Museum of Art Ruben Flores, Angella Diamond Henry P. van Ameringen Graphic Designer: to power such as Bangladeshi photog- Forbes, Scott Globus, Noah P. Dorsky Grace Martinez rapher Shahidul Alam, whose resonant Jeremy Heimans, Ayman William C. Dowling, Jr. work speaks volumes about the shat- Mukerji Househam, Foundation Production Designer: tered region and its people. Gavin Irby, Ulrike Jaklin, Fred Eychaner Muoi Ly Kate Johnson, Larisa Christopher J. Fussner In the Museum we’ll explore the power Koronowski (Shamaness Patricia M. Gruber Cover Image: Detail of intention with Ben Rubin and Potion’s ChokBar), Cathy Nandansons Charitable from Wheel of Life; installation, The Wheel of Intentions, Koutsavlis, Kenji C. Liu, Trust Tibet; early 20th century; which turns the Rubin’s iconic spiral Donald S. Lopez Jr., Barbara Marcin Ullman pigments on cloth; staircase into a conceptual exploration Youdhi Maharjan, William E. Mayer Rubin Museum of Art; of prayer wheels. Enter your intention C2004.21.1 (HAR 65356) and spin the wheel to activate your B SPIRAL / THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART #OURPOWER THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART / SPIRAL 1 Spiral GALLERY WISDOM INTERVIEW INTERVIEW DEEPER DIVE THE POWER ISSUE 2019 Advice from a Mindfulness Accidentally on Purpose: Keeping the Faith: Religion Teacher Conversations with Monika and Politics Today AYMAN MUKERJI Bravo and Youdhi Maharjan WILLIAM DEWEY .................. 37 HOUSEHAM ......................... 18 ELENA PAKHOUTOVA . .......... 26 LETTER P R O F I L E Hear Me Roar: What Power Objects F O C U S Buddhism Can Teach Us 13MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ, SANFORD BIGGERS, E.V. DAY, INSIGHT Power Up Alien-Nation: And the Voice of P R O F I L E 24 KEMBRA PFAHLER, LISA ROSS, BEN VENOM, JACK WATERS about #MeToo JORRIT BRITSCHGI .............. 01 Shahidul Alam LAMA TSULTRIM ALLIONE AND The Power of Truth RAHAAB ALLANA. ................ 06 Dao of the Dominatrix SARAH ZABRODSKI The Struggle Itself DONALD S. LOPEZ JR. .......... 38 KATY BRENNAN ................... 20 GAVIN IRBY ........................ 30 INTERVIEW I N S I G H T I N T E R V I E W This is Your Brain on Power SUKHVINDER OBHI AND Creature Comforts Out with the Old: New Power SHAMANESS CHOKBAR ........ HOWARD KAPLAN ................ 40 10 Is Here to Stay JEREMY HEIMANS AND AIDAN YOUNG. .................... 32 POETRY Breath for Guan Yin ILLUSTRATION CHING-IN CHEN .................. 09 Afraid of Drowning SAYMOUKDA DUANGPHOUXAY VONGSAY ............................ 19 FEATURE FEATURE INSIGHT Measures for Managing Rebirth The Liberation of Tara KENJI C. LIU ........................ 39 22JIA SUNG ABOUT THE MUSEUM .............41 Waking Up to Power War Magic: The Wizarding Empowerments: Awakening the Buddha Within World of Tibetan Sorcery Is a Spiritual Practice SCOTT GLOBUS 04 17 KARL DEBRECZENY KATE JOHNSON 34 FIND ADDITIONAL CONTENT AND EXPERIENCE MORE AT RUBINMUSEUM.ORG/ SPIRAL 2 SPIRAL / THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART #OURPOWER THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART / SPIRAL 3 FEATURE our personal experience, the more we can see that these experiences are microcosmic manifestations of the greed, hatred, and delusion that underscore what Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the “three giant triplets” of “capitalism, materialism, and racism.” WAKING UP TO WHAT I HEAR MOST OFTEN in the voices of new Many Buddhist teachers and scholars describe meditators is a longing to feel really here for this life, disillusionment, and even disgust, as a stage of in- to be 100% awake for it. They have a vague sense sight on the path to liberation. They often identify it of sleepwalking through their days, not really feeling as the outcome of awakening into the truth of imper- what’s happening while it’s happening, being men- manence, the soul-level realization that every condi- tally consumed with a past they can’t change and a tioned phenomenon in this world, including our own future they can’t foresee. They express bewilderment bodies, are subject to death and decay. A natural re- in the face of the present moment, having somehow sponse to this realization is to become disenchanted missed the subtle shifts that led up to the current state with the stuff of this world. of affairs. They find themselves blinking in the glare of In my own practice and teaching, I’ve seen disil- POWER current reality, wondering, How did I get here? How lusionment occur as a stage of insight into the dy- did we collectively get here? And when “here” is a namics of privilege and oppression. If our mindful- state of suffering, How do we get to a better place? ness practice includes attention to the suffering of the This longing—to be present, to be clear, to be fully world and an investigation of its causes, that explo- awake in every moment and empowered to shape the ration will inevitably lead us to question the systems IS A future—is a kind of awakening in itself. We are awake that result in those conditions and the mental models to the fact that we are going through the motions of that power them. If our mindfulness practice includes our life, we are awake to the fact that we don’t want to a patient awareness of our own thoughts, emotions, be, and we are aware that waking up is a critical junc- and body sensations that arise in relation to people ture in the path that leads to happiness, wholeness, we perceive as different from us, they will inevitably and freedom. lead us face to face with the degree to which we have In contemporary interpretations of the Buddha’s internalized those same systems. These awakenings teachings, the words awakening, en- are not just a side effect of spiritual prac- lightenment, and liberation are often tice—they are the very point of spiritual Join interactive used interchangeably to describe the workshops and practice. For some of us, they are the How meditation and goal of mindfulness and meditation conversations in way in to a liberating awareness of the practices. But more and more, I’m con- the Compassionate truth of our interdependence and recog- vinced that we have to wake up before Action series nition that happiness and freedom are co-curated by activism can work we can be free. Awakening is the cause, inherently collective endeavors. Kate Johnson at and liberation is the natural effect of be- the Rubin Museum We have to wake up before we can together to quiet ing awake in the world.
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