True Art (圖)

True art should not have anything to do with the discursive mind. It is a different kind of inspiration, not seated in the body or the apparent personality. It is a motion to which one must submit oneself so that the body is made to endure physical and emotional pain in the spontaneous and psychic process of being overwhelmed, of being radiant. It should be a sacred incantation of involvement with Transcendental Consciousness, the creative resource of Being. True art has a purpose for others, not merely for the artist. The purpose of art is to enliven, heal and positively transform the participants in a process of self-understanding. That means that for an artist to be effective he must submit to the process of self-undestanding. The need for the personal discipline of self-understanding is as important as technical understanding in order to serve the higher purpose of art. ---Avatar Adi Da Samraj [foto: Quandra Loka --The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light, by Adi Da Samraj]

[LTG]

想像力

創造力

暗示Nature

無法解釋

感歎！

無法解釋。。。


天問

:)

[知凡]

SD，其實我懂得很少，我是從看畫開始的，很多畫家的風格、筆觸、想像力與創造力暗示了他們的Nature（本性），我能感覺一點點但是無法解釋，我有時感歎，天！是因為我無法解釋。。。天問:)

[影雲]

in both the painting and the quotation, i see the shadow of Jung . . .

[by水滴]

Thanks for the sharing! I feel very happy tonight. :)

ZF: would you like to explain more about Adi Da 天蠍座；Alex Grey人馬座...? I want learn more about Western astrology. :)

[LTG]

sd: How do you make sense of my 3 "???"?

zz: i surrender...

zf: 從Adi Da和Alex Grey的作品，強烈感覺 Adi Da 天蠍座；Alex Grey人馬座...

zz: amazing!!!!!

[by水滴]

Wait a munite! How do you make sense of my 3 "???"? as my intention to make sense out of the living instant? I actually surrended before you asked! :))

----lol (just learned the phrase from you. Is it "laugh out loud?) :)))

[知凡]

I intend these images to "picture" the unity of the undifferentiated reality from which all appearances emerge in a constant flow of changes. The entire span of human possibilities is reflected in these images ?both "positive" and "negative." But all possibilities are seen in the context of that inherent unity or indivisible space. The positives and the negatives are all transcended, rather than any attempt being made to render them acceptable in and of themselves.

從Adi Da和Alex Grey的作品，強烈感覺 Adi Da 天蠍座；Alex Grey人馬座，amazing.....

[LTG]

:))

u r funny.....no need to surrender....

we are all winners!!!!

[by水滴]

You are very sharp! I "surrender" this time. :( and should let go of this "make sense" mind! :))

[LTG]

now, "you" have a "purpose" in your mind....that is not good :))

what kind of "sense" do you want to make??

[by水滴]

SO it is, " these images to "picture" the unity of the undifferentiated reality from which all appearances emerge in a constant flow of changes."

Very interesting and creative technique!!

It remind me how we might preceived the world.
Are we also submerged underwater?
Aren't we trying to catch those living instant of the constantly changing sunlight conditions and try to make sense out of it?
Can we really make sense out of it? :))

[LTG]

haha...someone must have shouted "open sesame"!!!!

:)

good art/artists are all connected....if found Adi Da through Alex Grey....

you can google them and discover your own treasure boxes!!!!

[by水滴]

No, my guess couldn't be right. "Transcendental Consciousness, the creative resource of Being." must be timeless, formless.

So it must be images in psychic arena..

btw. ZZ: where do you find those "ART"? You must "discovered" secrete treasure caves in somewhere! Should we Ah Li BaBa shout "Open Sesame!" ?

[LTG]

wow! SD, your understanding of art is so acute!!!!

I am just as impressed by his art as you are....out of words....

Here's the artist's own wrod:

Quandra Loka is a visual meditation on a very simple circumstance: a woman in and near a pool of water. Narcissus, the archetype of ego, gazes at his own reflection in a pond, never able to contact the "object" of his self-enamored affection. But Quandra, the true beloved, is one with the water itself, whether in or out of the pool.

I shot the majority of the images in Quandra Loka underwater, or with the camera lens partially submerged in water, so that the water functions as a vast and subtly complex lens, achieving visual results not possible by any technical means. The images are made by a "technique" that requires continuous participation in the living instant of the photographic situation ?sensitive to the constantly changing sunlight conditions, the ever-shifting minute movements of the subject, and even my own ability to stay submerged underwater. This "method" is beyond conceptual effort, beyond conventions of control in the ordinary sense, beyond point of view. This process of generating images ?involving absolute awareness of every detail of what is occurring and (simultaneously) an intuitive trust in allowing the ultimately unpredictable process to take place ?is a means of allowing reality to be self-manifested.

I intend these images to "picture" the unity of the undifferentiated reality from which all appearances emerge in a constant flow of changes. The entire span of human possibilities is reflected in these images ?both "positive" and "negative." But all possibilities are seen in the context of that inherent unity or indivisible space. The positives and the negatives are all transcended, rather than any attempt being made to render them acceptable in and of themselves.

[by水滴]

Wonderful quotation!

The image is beyond the rational arena, into psychic and subtle arena. It is beyond my capacity to interpret. Is it the image of "Transcendental Consciousness, the creative resource of Being"?

If you can explain it more or less, I would really like to hear. :)