that my little eyelet explorations
(see previous here)
(see previous here)
were manifesting at the same time
In Zen Buddhist painting,
ensō
(Japanese word meaning circle)
symbolizes a moment when
the mind is free to simply let the
body/spirit create.
The ensō drawing or painting
is used for daily meditation practice.
The ensō drawing or painting
is used for daily meditation practice.
this was happening
in my moments of awarness,
I was co-creating with the ensō
my mark making was not paint, led or charcoal,
but the lens of my camera.
in my moments of awarness,
my mark making was not paint, led or charcoal,
but the lens of my camera.
I am fully in the moment with my image making,
for this reason it has taken on
new meaning for me,
kind of spiritual
when using the symbolic ensō,
focusing through
'my little eyelet'.
~ The Spiral Way ~
The way of the mystic is not a linear path. We do not slay dragons one after the other, proceeding in a clear chronological line towards fulfilment.
Neither is the mystic way a circle a despairing and closed circuit in which we return again and again to the same experiences.
Rather, the way of the mystic is the spiral way - circular, but with ever-changing vistas. On the spiral way, we may visit old scenes, grapple with old dragons. But each time we return, we do so as different people and from a different place; the experience is not the same. 'I am here again, but I have never been here before.' The mystic may often say things like that on the spiral way.
Oh - instead of slaying old dragons, they just view them differently.
This excerpt was taken from
The One-Minute-Mystic
written by
Linked to
Postcards from Paradise
Will be posting more ensō inspired images next week
why not join me it's great fun?
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rise as if with new eyes in each new moment.
imagine....
loving as if for the first time.
i believe in this..
keeping our hearts connected to each present moment.
there is a purity here where clarity resides.
thank you for your beautiful reminder.
Noelle x
Fresh
To move
Cleanly.
Needing to be
Nowhere else.
Wanting nothing
From any store.
To lift something
You already had
And set it down in
A new place.
Awakened eye
Seeing freshly.
What does that do to
The old blood moving through
Its channels?
~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~
(You & Yours)
you are interested in Mysticism? I am a mystic too. something I find hard to say.. as much as finding it hard to say I am an artist.. xoxo
<3
a new way of SEEing
of spiraling INTO
thank you for this beautiful reminder and start to my day.
x..x