The Return Of Art

It is time for art to return. 

The poets, the visionaries, the shamans must come to the forefront and guide humanity.

In this day and age, art seems almost purposeless—anything could be "art". 

Art has become a commodity to be hawked in the marketplace. 

I feel like art has lost its sacredness. 

Art has a power to affect consciousness. 

Artists have a responsibility, as do all humans in these times, to create a better world.

Art needs to create a vision of goodness, truth, and beauty. A way out of darkness.

Art that fails at this isn't art in its true power. It's merely poor taste put on display. 

We don't have time to dilly dally anymore. The wise must take the wheel and show the way. 

The wayshowers have traditionally been the shamans, the artists, the poets, the bards, the wise men and women. 

Now we follow the technocrats, the scientists, the oligarchs, the influencers, and the politicians. 

Where are the wise leaders?

Where is the vision?

It's time for a renaissance. 

The Best Moment

Live in the moment.

Consciously make it the best moment.

Discard any voice that is dissatisfied with this moment. That wants to be somewhere else.

Let go of comparison.

Let go of wanting.

Watch the desire. 

Make this moment the best moment. 

Different situations will arise around this moment.

For right now, let go of wanting anything different.

And make this moment the best.

Relating To Thought

Why does thought show up when it's not needed?

Why does it ramble on and on and on?

I can be in silence, enjoying my life, and then thought shows up unannounced to tell me about some story.

Often it is a re-telling of a story. Often the story goes over fears, anxieties, drama.

What are thoughts? 

Are they alive or are they like a computer algorithm?

What moves thought to the forefront of my awareness?

I can obviously become aware of my thoughts, so can I use them only when I need them?

Can all thoughts become like tools in my garage?

Can I put them away when I don't need them?

Aliveness

There are many lenses I can look through. 

My identity. My ego. My story. My memories.

If I am not consciously aware, they are what I look through when I am looking at the present moment.

By default, they are what cover my awareness to interpret reality.

If I am consciously aware, then I can see the lenses of identity, ego, story, memories. 

These lenses are not good or bad, right or wrong. 

But they are static, inflexible, mechanical.

They are from the past. They were created in the past. Some are inherited relics of a bygone time.

The present moment is a living thing. 

To be with a living thing, one must also be alive, not static, inflexible, mechanical.

To express aliveness, one must approach the present without any lenses, and respond without a "method".

Aliveness is conscious awareness of the present moment without the past interfering. 

Aliveness is seeing reality, being one with reality, responding to reality, creating reality.

You Are On The Right Path

 If you are reading this,

You are on the right path. 

You have within you a guiding principle,

The same principle that spins the galaxies,

Makes apples fall from trees,

Puts petals on a flower,

Fills a nucleus with power. 

Something has drawn you here.

You are like a bloodhound on a trail,

And you can never lose the scent,

Like the fabric of the universe, 

It will always be there. 

You are a part of this great equation.

So trust this guiding principle,

It will keep taking you to the right place,

And it will plug you in to this amazing mysterious life.

Now

Where does all insight and transformation occur?

Is it tomorrow? Next week? Five years from now?

No. It happens now. Nothing happens in the future.

The thing you are wanting to happen will happen now. The realization, the transformation, the understanding all happens now. 

Start thinking of life becoming a series of powerful “nows”. Every now has infinite potential. Now is where all of life happens. 

Know Thyself

This morning I am playing a game.

How honest can I be?

How connected can I be to this reality?

What is this reality?

From my observation, this world seems to be a natural reality and the reality generated by the human mind. 

The natural reality is the cosmos. It is persistent yet ever-changing.

The human mind is a collection of particular narratives. Each one generating a unique reality.

The human being is put in the middle of this. 

It is both the cosmos and its own particular narrative.

But there is something else.

Awareness. 

Awareness can notice the cosmos and the particular narrative. Therefore, awareness is outside of both. It is connected and yet it is not connected to both. 

Awareness is therefore more "me" than the cosmos or the narrative. 

To know myself, I must go into the root of this awareness and find out what it is.