PLANTING ASPARAGUS ON MARS:
TWILIGHT LANGUAGE:
"From Toling to Tsaparang", mixed media on canvas
"I have a soft spot for secret passageways, bookshelves that open into silence, staircases that go down into a void, and hidden safes. I even have (them) myself, but I won't tell you where. At the other end of the spectrum are statistics which I hate with all my heart."
"Skeleton Lord of Tashi Do", mixed media on canvas
"Dare to be naïve.
'Reality' should always be in quotes."
~ Buckminster Fuller
the sun doesn’t stay
now that it's lost its way
and the moon doesn’t
give rise to dreaming.
with hours cast aside
now a wanderer’s guide
laid a spell on the hand
it was holding.
in the room that is shaded
the dust wouldn’t bloom
though the solitary
wallpaper’s watered.
and when no said its no
there was no where to go
save the shell of
an oyster that saved it.
no one is willing
to admit of killing
the heart skipping beats
by the wayside.
now who is a lover,
now who is a friend,
when the heart that once played
is stone silent?
the sun could not know
and the moon dares not show
its beam to the
path of unknowing.
"Ngari Panchen", acrylic on clay
"Atisha's Pillar"/ diptych, sepia study, mixed media on canvas
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'Spiral Conch Study", mixed media on canvas
"As stars, a fault of vision, as a lamp,
A mock show, dewdrops, or a bubble,
A dream, a lightning flash, or cloud,
So should one view what is conditioned."
(...Sangharakshita)
Translation of Khenpo Appey’s Root Lama’s Verse
Mara recognised and abandoned is conducive to dharma.
Mara known as one’s own mind is an assistant on the
path.
Mara seen as Dharmata is the essential point of the
view.
Mara taken up as a blessing is the pith instruction.
If you recognise the obstacles to
your spiritual
practice and abandon them
this will create an
environment conducive
to your becoming a spiritual
person.
If you come to know that those very obstacles you face
are nothing other than your own mind,
then
this will assist you
in your spiritual development.
If you see that the obstacles, while appearing,
are intrinsically empty
of self existence,
this is
the correct view.
The pith instruction is that
by the power of your realisation
you
should make
the obstacles a
blessing.
"Now What?" (detail), mixed media on wood
"He looked at his own Soul
with a Telescope. What seemed
all irregular, he saw and
shewed to be beautiful
Constellations; and he added
to the Consciousness hidden
worlds within worlds.
...Coleridge, 'Notebooks'
I'm currently reading:
"Memories, Dreams, Reflection" (C.G. Jung)
"Earth, Ocean, Sky" (A.W. Reed & Ross Calman)
"Glenn Gould, The Ecstacy & Tragedy of Genius" P.F. Ostwald)
"Wrestling with the Angel - a life of janet frame" (Michael King)
"Brief 36 - NZ Music Issue" (eds. Brett Cross / Bill Direen)
The Great Immeasurables: The 41st SAKYA TRIZIN / Agents of Change / Barack Obama.
www.myspace.com/barackobama