What is Art?

 

 

Contemplation on the falseness of ordinary perception results in the revelation of a very quiet mental mode where beauty is all. The motion of the bird in the tree carries a delicate purity.

Art comes from this mode of being. It can be shooting an arrow, fine cuisine, constructing a cement wall, speaking with elegance and lucidity, taking care of a sick person, even just sitting. Life is Art if action springs forth from this mode of wholeness.

The Motions of Life - a poem

 

The motions of life

In their natural course

Showing signs

And symbols

Of grand order

 

Participating,

We dance with the rhythms

Of the cosmos

And feel that

Overwhelming sense

Of joy

 

The beauty of a falling leaf,

A raging protest,

Or a drifting canoe;

The pure love seeps

Through all

 

MS