Technically, every work of art comes into being in the same way as the cosmos - by means of catastrophes, which ultimately create out of the cacophony of the various instruments that symphony we call the music of the spheres. The creation of the work of art is the creation of the world.
Brian English, Bamboo from noornalini. The Winter 2010/2011 Issue of Parabola Magazine: Beauty has an amazing portfolio from Brian English. There is also a slide presentation of his work available at parabola.org.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
Mircea Eliade, 1971. From couleurs & danielsalas
(Source: savage-america)
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
Shotei, A Starlight Night (given name), 1924-1926; (post-1923 earthquake, from yama-bato & theantidote)
Think NOTHING
Wait until it is absolutely still within you
When you have attained this
Begin to play
As soon as you start to think
STOP.
And try to retain
The state of NON-THINKING
Then continue playing.
You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.
Calvin & Hobbes from The Existential Buddhist
