In order to experience of the primordial state:
1. There is no view on which one has to meditate.
2. There is no commitment one has to keep.
3. There is no capacity for spiritual action one has to seek.
4. There is no mandala one has to create.
5. There is no initiation one has to receive.
6. There is no path one has to tread.
7. There are no levels of realization on has to achieve through purification.
8. There is no conduct one has to adopt or abandon.
9. From the beginning self-arising wisdom has been free of obstacles.
10. Self perfection is beyond hope and fear.
Zen practitioners are not conditioned by anything, not even by the teachings, the practice, beliefs, etc.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Artist's Choice
THE ARTIST'S CHOICE
INTEGRITY/INSANITY
Elimination of ignorance.
Is art therapy, descriptions of a sick society or predictions of change? All are valid definitions.
Then there are artists who are singlemindedly concerned with truth within themselves and that which would be considered universal.
Non-separatists.
Perhaps they see the problem and are drawing from heart felt insight towards an evolutionary advancement towards wholeness/oneness.
In observing what was done by the Abstract Expressionists in response to two world wars in terms of bringing art to its conclusion in displaying purely black canvases it becomes also the end of an evolutionary mind process unmistakenly seen - the death of art, the death of the spirit of a world culture. Standing in front of a black canvas confronts the viewer with a very uncomfortable situation. A reflection? It's fascinating how art is able to impact on the culture by forcing it to look at what's happening. The message takes time to become absorbed by the masses. One could say it takes time to catch up to a movement created by those who in some cases staked their lives and who have the courage to stand for what they know in the face of all opposition.
Darkness or Enlightenment?
Here we are confronted with a climate which has arrived at the epitome of self-centeredness and almost total individual alienation causing mass suicide, extreme mental anguish, all-pervasive power-based behavior world wide. Artists themselves have become involved in this vicious game.
At this crossroad, elimination of the cause of conflict is to realize ourselves as perfect individuals who are not separate from nature and the universe. Allowing what can be defined as direct sensual contact with reality and devoid of beliefs. Removing the cause and breaking the cycle, not soothing, not describing symptoms, not covering up but crafting an entirely new movement of moving with.
Not looking right or left, using centered all-pervasive awareness, seeing, directly penetrating into whole beyond limited purviews - expansion, touching all things in all ways with no barriers -acceptance.
In this evolutionary process an artist is in the unique position of not taking sides, they can choose to be non-institutional and being free of all cultural bias has the ability to attain true anarchy of the mind which promotes the clarity of their work through a benign justice blind to prejudice expressing unity and balance through art.
This is Creativity, Excitement and Beauty in it's clearest form.
Eliminating egoistic aims, centering, they have the potential to create change universally.
By eliminating cultural indoctrination and letting all bias fall by the wayside the are free and are freeing for others.
Living in the world as part of the struggle they become innovators who can shape and define what is. And within this context they can become undistorted and even immpeccable mirrors of the change that is occurring, the change towards sanity.
FROM PURE JOY SPRINGS ALL CREATION, BY JOY IT IS SUSTAINED, TOWARDS JOY IT PROCEEDS AND TO JOY IT RETURNS.
JAO - TAOS 1994
INTEGRITY/INSANITY
Elimination of ignorance.
Is art therapy, descriptions of a sick society or predictions of change? All are valid definitions.
Then there are artists who are singlemindedly concerned with truth within themselves and that which would be considered universal.
Non-separatists.
Perhaps they see the problem and are drawing from heart felt insight towards an evolutionary advancement towards wholeness/oneness.
In observing what was done by the Abstract Expressionists in response to two world wars in terms of bringing art to its conclusion in displaying purely black canvases it becomes also the end of an evolutionary mind process unmistakenly seen - the death of art, the death of the spirit of a world culture. Standing in front of a black canvas confronts the viewer with a very uncomfortable situation. A reflection? It's fascinating how art is able to impact on the culture by forcing it to look at what's happening. The message takes time to become absorbed by the masses. One could say it takes time to catch up to a movement created by those who in some cases staked their lives and who have the courage to stand for what they know in the face of all opposition.
Darkness or Enlightenment?
Here we are confronted with a climate which has arrived at the epitome of self-centeredness and almost total individual alienation causing mass suicide, extreme mental anguish, all-pervasive power-based behavior world wide. Artists themselves have become involved in this vicious game.
At this crossroad, elimination of the cause of conflict is to realize ourselves as perfect individuals who are not separate from nature and the universe. Allowing what can be defined as direct sensual contact with reality and devoid of beliefs. Removing the cause and breaking the cycle, not soothing, not describing symptoms, not covering up but crafting an entirely new movement of moving with.
Not looking right or left, using centered all-pervasive awareness, seeing, directly penetrating into whole beyond limited purviews - expansion, touching all things in all ways with no barriers -acceptance.
In this evolutionary process an artist is in the unique position of not taking sides, they can choose to be non-institutional and being free of all cultural bias has the ability to attain true anarchy of the mind which promotes the clarity of their work through a benign justice blind to prejudice expressing unity and balance through art.
This is Creativity, Excitement and Beauty in it's clearest form.
Eliminating egoistic aims, centering, they have the potential to create change universally.
By eliminating cultural indoctrination and letting all bias fall by the wayside the are free and are freeing for others.
Living in the world as part of the struggle they become innovators who can shape and define what is. And within this context they can become undistorted and even immpeccable mirrors of the change that is occurring, the change towards sanity.
FROM PURE JOY SPRINGS ALL CREATION, BY JOY IT IS SUSTAINED, TOWARDS JOY IT PROCEEDS AND TO JOY IT RETURNS.
JAO - TAOS 1994
An Awakening
STREAMING
...and when in reverie such wild awakenings come,
shooting forth their direct hits, she knows what's what and what to do and like a shot this woman's awakened!
By streamside disloging the heavy clumps of autumnal leaf, creating free flow with her hands or unsticking with large forest fallen branches as tall as she is in her seventh year of life she stands the knowing progenitrix of her symbiotic relationship with all she surveys. No one oversees her work, the dogs long gone from her side are let loose running, crashing through the brush on scents of myriad delightful trails.
...and when in reverie such wild awakenings come,
shooting forth their direct hits, she knows what's what and what to do and like a shot this woman's awakened!
By streamside disloging the heavy clumps of autumnal leaf, creating free flow with her hands or unsticking with large forest fallen branches as tall as she is in her seventh year of life she stands the knowing progenitrix of her symbiotic relationship with all she surveys. No one oversees her work, the dogs long gone from her side are let loose running, crashing through the brush on scents of myriad delightful trails.
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