gold echo

3 types of perception within which we see the patterns of our life……

sense of experience, sense of emptiness, sense of luminosity………not to be ‘explained’ but ‘known’ personally….

According to Trungpa Rinpoche, the philosophy behind this is essentially meaningless. He says perception is purely experiential (sounds like Nietzsche!). It doesn’t have to be confirmed. A sharp precision arises through the sitting practice of meditation…..’removing the clouds, rather than recreating the sun’.

This connects to his beautiful idea of ‘magic.’ Spark, or magic lies in individuality, not to be confused with ego. We don’t usually trust ourselves, but when you ‘click in’ you are able to experience a sense of reality not dependent on reinforcement. It is unconditional. The phenomenal world is our own world. This magic is our power. Iconography as our journey.

How beautiful is this? I say yes! A cosmology of breathing this life….

This, to me, is the ‘hero’s journey’ Joseph Campbell described…..the journey we take from innocence to wisdom, from stagnation to new life.

a vital everyday necessity

This may be where art & life connect….perception as Hirsch confronts the ego’s battles in ‘the demon & the angel’ (one of my favorite books….ever)….

A highly formal & traditional work deepens immeasurably when one feels the primal murkiness threatening to swell up underneath the geometric clarity, the verbal concision, & the ironic wit. The ancient demons are never far from shore. They dwell within the deeps. They move in the ghostly mists. A highly rational art is especially haunting when one feels the struggle in the thought, or even underneath the thought; when one senses something dark welling up from below, from the primordial mud; when one recognizes the powerful internal pressure of a mind defending itself against itself.

‘Primal murkiness’ as the ‘hero’s journey?’ ahhh…….