Category: Art

  • Living by The Mountain of Attention Sanctuary

    View of Tall Animals Land hillside next to The Mountain of Attention
    Inside view of The Mountain of Attention Sanctuary

    The World-Friend Adi Da first stepped onto the Mountain of Attention Sanctuary on Jan 23, 1974.

    A Movie Review: The Miracle

    The Miracle on Netflix

    The Miracle is on Netflix, a Turkish movie with subtitles, based on a true story, see pictures on imdb.com.

    A teacher in Turkey in the 1960s runs off to a remote village to avoid getting drafted. Unfortunately, there is no school in the village. He despairs but then agrees to teach only if girls are included in a new school. The teacher begins teaching a disabled man as well. Drama, comedy, and a miracle!

    Quote from the movie: Muhtar Davut: Some people have eyes in their hearts. They see the world through those eyes. They see everything through those eyes.

  • Wonder Rests the Vital Being and Cools the Brain

    Wonder Rests the Vital Being and Cools the Brain

    Sometimes at night I step outside to get some fresh air and look up to the stars–to take in the big picture. Here’s a link to a visual meditation about this.

  • Cool Rocket & Moon Video/Story

    Cool Rocket & Moon Video/Story

    Here’s an interesting story about a rare video and photos of a rocket flying in front of a nearly full moon.

  • Do Not Play Games with Sex

    Untitled, from The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, page 29
    Untitled, from The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, page 29

    A quote from the World-Teacher, Adi Da:

    Do not play games with sex. It is a very powerful deluding force, and a diversion from the Inherent Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality Itself, into conditional (or cosmic) illusions.

    You do not even see the human body as it is. You see it through pictures, through mind. You put on a mummers’ show for one another. In the most common case, women are the “something”, the sexual “object” for men–and men are the same for women. It is a style. But it is also an illusion about you. It is a game….

    from “The Only Sorrowless Domain”, the Epilogue in Always Enact Fidelity To Me

    The image is Untitled, from The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, page 29

  • Regarding “Art and Chaos”

    Regarding “Art and Chaos”

    Adi Da wrote an essay called “Art and Chaos“. Here is a sentence that I really like:

    The conceptual aspect of all art is the mental animation of the intrinsic self-apprehension of order.

    Art is making sense out of chaos.