Tania Schmieder explores the art of effortlessness in her still life paintings and drawings at the artisans’ gallery .
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on creativity
David Bohm investigates the phenomenon of creativity from all angles. What is a creative mind – and what sabotages its operation? What are the hallmarks of genuine creativity? Can it be cultivated? What is its relationship to health and well-being?
It is [the] flash of realization of not-two-ness, that is both the center and the endpoint of our human experience.
The basic project of art is ... to close the gap between you and everything that is not you.
The purpose of art is to take the senses on a journey back to the source of perception, which is pure Awareness.
In order to understand the true meaning of Abstract Art, we have to conceive of ourselves as a reflex (reflection) of reality. This means we have to see ourselves as a mirror in which reality reflects itself.
Seeing is perception with the original, unconditioned eye. It is a state of consciousness in which separation of photographer/subject, audience/image dissolves; in which a reality beyond words and concepts opens up, whose “point” or “meaning” is the direct experience itself. – John Daido Loori
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness ... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
I am Not,
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
God created the giraffe, the cat, the elephant ...
Slow motion opens the mind.inexplicable delight .
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
the awakened eye 
Wonderful to see this poem again, and illustrated with such a stunning image. Li Po has always been one of favorite Chinese poets and this one is a stunner. Thanks for posting it Miriam.
Ron
Thanks for commenting Ron.
I love this poem because it expresses the great paradox:
How can the poet/artist disappear into the world, and yet deliver a message home?
Emptiness to Emptiness, via Emptiness.
~ ml, bowing
thank you !!
Delighted to hear from you again Claude!