“The flowers depart when we hate to lose them;
The weeds arrive while we hate to watch them grow”– Dogen
“But beyond and above this intellectual utility of Art, there is a higher use, the noblest of all, its service to the growth of spirituality in the race….Spirituality is a wider thing than formal religion and it is in the service of spirituality that Art reaches its highest self-expression. Spirituality is a single word expressive of three lines of human aspiration towards divine knowledge, divine love and joy, divine strength, and that will be the highest and most perfect Art which, while satisfying the physical requirements of the aesthetic sense, the laws of formal beauty, the emotional demand of humanity, the portrayal of life and outward reality, as the best European Art satisfies these requirements, reaches beyond them and expresses inner spiritual truth, the deeper not obvious reality of things, the joy of God in the world and its beauty and desirableness and the manifestation of divine force and energy in phenomenal creation….Therefore Art has flowed in two separate streams in Europe and Asia, so diverse that it is only now that the European aesthetic sense has so far trained itself as to begin to appreciate the artistic conventions, aims, and traditions of Asia. Asia’s future development will unite these two streams in one deep and grandiose flood of artistic self-expression perfecting the aesthetic evolution of humanity….Art can express eternal truth, it is not limited to the expression of form and appearance…All human activity reaches its highest and noblest when it succeeds in bringing body, heart, and the mind into touch with spirit…What Nature is, what God is, what man is can be triumphantly revealed in stone or on canvas.” – ‘The National Value of Art’, Sri Aurobindo
“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”
― Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics
Stillness mirrors ecstasy
The gamma ray pulsars spinning prodigiously
Sending signals back in a loop
Sculpting in time
Out of wood and stone
Images or forms that vibrate with celestial beauty
Through an interlocutory medium
Plastic and sensory
Intuitively mobile
Movements of the discreetness of matter
That are felt by thoughts
And hearts connecting to stillness in nature
Originating the playful dance of Ganesha
Over nano fibers in the torus stretching to the origin in the omniverse
Intelligent circuits coded in sound
Giving rise to Skills – Spatio-Kinetic-Integrated-Language-Levels (both Verbal/Non-Verbal communicative techniques)
That present humanity must develop
As the tendency of the highest mind to break optical illusions
And become only the photon to be sensed by the Void
Swallowed by the gravity in the black hole pool
To be on the other side (Imaginative Hyper-connective Vessels – Frinctuon of Adi Chinatamani Stone)
Leaving Hawkings’ super-translations as a trace on the event horizon
Though with low resolution
For the phenomenal world to read
And ponder upon…
-J