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The fine idea, 1964, Rene Magritte
https://www.wikiart.org/en/rene-magritte/the-fine-idea-1964
Per Kleiva - Strålar fra Oska (acrylic on canvas, 1972)
Valley of the Moon, 1950, Remedios Varo
Ceres Teaching Agriculture to King Triptolemus, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, 1769
The Call, Remedios Varo
C. G. Jung - Systema Munditotius (The System of all Worlds), “Septem Sermones ad Mortuos”, 1916. This diagram portrays the antinomies of the microcosm within the macrocosmic world and its antinomies. At the very top, the figure of the young boy in the winged egg, called Erikapaios or Phanes and thus reminiscent as a spiritual figure of the Orphic Gods. His dark antithesis in the depths is here designated as Abraxas. He represents the dominus mundi, the lord of the physical world, and is a world-creator of an ambivalent nature.
Sprouting from him we see the tree of life, labeled vita (“life”) while its upper counterpart is a light-tree in the form of a seven-branched candelabra labeled ignis (“fire”) and Eros (“love”). Its light points to the spiritual world of the divine child. Art and science also belong to this spiritual realm, the first represented as a winged serpent and the second as a winged mouse.
The candelabra is based on the principle of the spiritual number three (twice-three flames with one large flame in the middle), while the lower world of Abraxas is characterized by five, the number of natural man (the twice-five rays of his star). The accompanying animals of the natural world are a devilish monster and a larva. This signifies death and rebirth.
A further division of the mandala is horizontal. To the left we see a circle indicating the body or the blood, and from it rears the serpent, which winds itself around the phallus, as the generative principle. The serpent is dark and light, signifying the dark realm of the earth, the moon, and the void (therefore called Satanus). The light realm of rich fulness lies to the right, where from the bright circle frigus sive amor dei (cold, or the love of God) the dove of the Holy Ghost takes wing, and wisdom (Sophia) pours from a double beaker to left and right. This feminine sphere is that of heaven.
The large sphere characterized by zigzag lines or rays represents an inner sun; within this sphere the macrocosm is repeated, but with the upper and lower regions reversed as in a mirror. These repetitions should be conceived of as endless in number, growing even smaller until the innermost core, the actual microcosm, is reached
Tsuchiya Koitsu, Hakone Lake, 1938.
Détail de « Pastorale », par Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (c. 1893).
Detail of “Pastoral”, by Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (c. 1893).
It boils down to this: nobody has fucked up your life, really. The only thing that fucks up your life is that you actually feel somebody has pulled a trick on you or that you have pulled a trick on yourself. And as a matter of fact, there’s no you. You don’t even exist, you don’t exist at all. So nobody’s pulling a trick on anybody. Even you don’t exist. You are just a myth, a mythical truth.
Chogyam Trungpa “The Path is The Goal”
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to be a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Ivan Aivazovsky - The Birth of Aphrodite, 1887
Whether you’re in the fields or working in the city, take these words and consider them…..“Why was I born? What can I take with me?” Ask yourselves over and over. If you ask yourself these questions often you’ll become wise.
Ajahn Chah
Ozias Leduc (1864-1955), Erato (Muse In The Forest)
Will-power should be understood to be the strength of mind which makes it capable for meeting success or failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why should one’s attempts be always attended with success? Success develops arrogance and the man’s spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure on the other hand is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens the eyes of the man to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Self-surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness. Therefore one should try to gain the equipoise of mind under all circumstances. That is will-power.
Ramana Maharshi
AUGUST 16TH, 1989