"Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe."

Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

Painting By Cool Hand Luke

“Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.”

-Veda Upanishads

Happiness can be achieved in the simplest of ways, all that is required is an open mind. I wish to be an advocator of happiness ( and by doing so attempting to fulfill my duty on this earth) through using the positive energy we all possess to generate warmth through serious creative play. Through this compassion, we can share; grow. All through Extrovert Meditation. We can trade and prosper into a community of equals. Our intellect could flourish and our curiosity towards this mystical and beautiful world could perhaps be renewed. We could see through the eyes of child. Perhaps, collectively we could talk of the opposite spectrum. Perhaps we could activate a new treatment towards the human race? Oh, how I want share and learn. Take time to listen from all earthly materials and expose the light. Perhaps then we wouldn’t stumble in our waltz. I want to use Warmth as a subversive lifestyle because it is too easy in this culture of desire, to become alienated from our true nature. We are social animals…
So it seems my purpose, is to serve this energy that flows inside of me ( which I’ve just recently started to relocate) through sharing with my family, friends, peers, and strangers as an antidote to fear in all its forms. Art as ecstasy; for the people as reverend Fox describes it. Together we can pick each other up, and mend, rebuild the foundation for we are all drifting through the ebb and flow. From the darkness we are born and to the darkness we shall return. Let’s shed some light on this life before it is too late.

"Alive upon Alive! Ignite your inner heart of compassion. Find answers to your deep questions: What is the purpose of my life? What is happiness? Is there a way I can help others out of suffering? How do I make life meaningful?"
— Domo Geshe Rinpoche, the 9th incarnation (female)

working on the foundation

waiting-we're listening to the silence; for the breeze to hum a kind command-" we must work on the foundations, the relations between man".

ah, summer research.

The following is from Conversations Before the End of Time with Thomas Moore:

Suzi: As I understand your sense of the soulful life, it would mean bringing art back into a more vernacular, everyday world, and taking it out of the more rarefied sphere of professionalism. You mentioned in the letter you wrote to me that you are very interested in the role of the arts in the world today. Do you see art as being an important vehicle for the return of soul?
Moore: Probably its most important vehicle.
Suzi: Do you want to elaborate on this?
Moore: Yes, there’s so much to say here. First, though, I’d like to pick up on this point of yours about everyday life. There are a number of ways in which we could bring the artist back into everyday life, so that we don’t just have this fringe art world that doesn’t really touch on the values of the way we live, essentially. One way would be for the artist truly to feel a sense of conviviality in the society, in being part of that community, so that there’s a responsibility, and a pleasure, in going into the world and being part of, say, actually designing the city... We can’t suddenly begin living a more artful life, which is the avenue to soul, if in the public life around us, and in everything we see and inhabit, art is invisible.
Suzi: And so, in your thinking, that could be a whole new paradigm for a socially relevant kind of art—not precisely in the sense that’s being talked about in the art world now of "political correctness" and social critique, but rather a kind of art that celebrates and participates robustly in the life-world.
Moore: Exactly. And here’s another point about soul.., soul enters life through pleasure. It’s an erotic activity: psyche and eros going together, rather than principle and responsibility. Responsibility suggests a kind of outward superego coming in and saying, "You know, this is what you should be doing." That is not a new paradigm; we’re not moving out of the modernistic world then. We’re just feeling we should do something different and more responsible.
Suzi: "If we are going to care for the soul," you say in your book, "and if we know that the soul is nurtured by beauty, then we will have to understand beauty more deeply and give it a more relevant place in life. It’s not only pleasure and conviviality, but also beauty that is necessary for the return of soul..." It’s interesting, don’t you think, that archetypal psychologists are the ones who seem to be taking the lead for a renaissance of beauty in our lives, even more than artists or aestheticians?

" If the old American dream was about prosperity maybe the new one will be about spontaneity."- Kalle Lasn

take flight

tonight when you drift to sleep-dream!-try to soar within a baby blue sky-travel free and light.

escape.

take flight.

Today anyone who paints space must actually go into space to paint, but he must go
there without any faking, and neither in an aeroplane, a parachute nor a rocket: he
must go there by his own means, by an autonomous, individual force; in a word, he
must be capable of levitating.-Yves Klein