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Good for Nothing!
No, seriously, good for nothing! I know we’ve built an entire global culture based on the idea that nothingness is worthless, but, well, we’re wrong. I’m just trying to congratulate Nothingness on doing one fabulous job of creating a universe, out of —nothing at all!
Okay, we’ll have a contest. Here’s the way it will work. You have absolutely nothing to work with. Now, you have eternity to do it. Okay, let’s see who can make a universe! Ready, set, go! Read More:
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The art work presented this week belongs to James L. Weaver. Paint Rag Magazine celebrates his work as an example of beholding. Beholding is that state of consciousness that lingers before our thoughts fill us with descriptions of what we are looking at, opinions about its value or lack of value. Beholding is that state of mind that sees the world without words or judgment. Beholding is silent presence.
James L. Weaver saw the beauty in discarded billboard fragments, after the images were torn off the billboard. He saw the beauty in math formulas aside from their mathematical symbolism. As you will see below, Weaver used these elements to make the perceptual universe a good deal larger, by creating space /time as rhythm by using pieces of advertising that our high tech society had discarded.
From the collages he presents for us, these formerly highly functional elements become consciously seen as rhythms, colors, and depth, which give us an easy view of that all encompassing state of mind that is beholding. Read More and View James L. Weaver’s Collages
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For a few individuals, awakening is a sudden occurrence that lasts either a lifetime or for many years. With most of us, awakening is a gradual process, rewarded by the fruits that leaving a trance state offers us on a moment-to-moment basis. An example of such a reward is dreaming less of how great it will be when we get off work, go on vacation or retire, and instead resting in a place within ourselves that feels good right now. In this way, we shift from a polarized state of perceiving our world to a radiant state of perceiving it, without desire or fear. Read More.
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If God is everywhere, then Awareness is in everything. Awareness cannot shrink or withdraw itself from any experience, even the experience of being poured concrete stone.
When a sidewalk is first poured by a stonemason, it lies in absolute comfort on the earth and stone bed that was prepared for it. An insurance policy is built into its flat form. The scored lines that define it as a square assure it that, if times get rough, it may break in an orderly fashion, and that this breakage will be in perfect keeping with tradition and its own supposed destiny to crack along those lines. In this way, a kind of religion has been built into it. Its future has been thought out and the way provided; for a structure has been established that provides a way to deal with future events and prophesies. It says, “The day will come when you will crack along these lines and that will be the will of the stone mason who created you.” Thus comforted, the sidewalk slab lies in deep rest. Read more
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This post is the first chapter of Painting A Pathway Home, by Ross Drago. Painting A Pathway Home is designed to encourage visual thinkers and spiritual seekers to use the act of painting as a means to bring about spiritual awakening. Works of art can be windows of opportunity for receptive viewers to gain tremendous spiritual ground in their own journey toward a realization of their true Self.
As with awakening itself, no words can describe the teachings intrinsic to that state, and no words can teach what painting itself teaches. Indeed, I have found through a lifetime of painting, that painting itself is a master teacher, an intelligence that works with whomever opens to this spiritual act. This Masterful Intelligence used to be seen as inspired by the Muses, but this source of inspiration has since lost it’s meaning in the modern aesthetic of a disposable world. This world is largely devoid of consciousness of the living spirit in objects, places and even processes such as painting. To believe that there is no living spirit in things and places and planets and even minerals and elements is a blind spot designed to facilitate indifference to the world we inhabit. Read More
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