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David

I'm a painter. please visit www.davidtitterington.com and www.davidtitterington.blogspot.com and www

About Me

This is the blurb on the website: David Titterington was born and raised in Kansas City. He began to draw at age three, using crayons and markers on his bedroom walls. Furious but intrigued, his parents sent him to private lessons at six, and he has studied the visual arts ever since.David was kicked out of elementary school for possessing a weapon; he spent junior high vandalizing and stealing. Things turned around for him in high school, when he began to study Japanese language, Zen Buddhism, and Ken Wilber, and awoke to a fascination with hospice, death, and the process of dying. The summer after his senior year he went to India for three weeks and discovered the writings of Shunryu Suzuki and the Dalai Lama, inspiring him to begin a daily practice of meditation and contemplation. At the University of Kansas he studied painting, mysticism, art history, and Japanese language and culture. He founded a sitting group at the university, returned to India for the Dalai Lama's spring teachings, and participated in spiritual retreats and workshops, including a Buddhist refuge with Khamtrul Rinpoche. He has been involved with Integral Institute since 2004, when one of his paintings was used for the cover of the Integral Ecology and Sustainability seminar brochure. He currently lives, exhibits, and works as an Assistant Language Teacher in Ehime, Japan. He is still a troublemaker, although of a decidedly more legal variety.About his work, David says "I am fascinated with patterns found in nature and the way light falls over forms. I'm also interested in the power of symbols to communicate ideas that words alone cannot. However, my paintings are primarily intended to provide the viewer with a simple space for rest." Cinematic Orchestra - All That You Give (Feat. Fontella Bass)
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My Interests

death, dying, dzogchen, dream yoga, psychology, religion, buddhism, mysticism, integral thinking, humanity, nature, hiking, art, music, reading, meditation, yoga, dreams, peace, freedom, conciousness.

I'd like to meet:

artists, meditators, people living in japan,

Music:

Ween, Mum, Bjork, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Bobby McFerrin, Bad Religion, bela fleck, classical, jazz, iron and wine, four tet, greg davis, edgar meyer, miles davis, matmos, chick corea, ry cooder, ali farkatoure, saul williams, sublime, brad mehldau, cornelius, eric satie, arvo part, tryo, paul simon, ween, sigur ros, zap mama, world, wind, andrew bird, sufjan stevens, jolie holland, susumu yokota, broken social scene, the books.

Movies:

american beauty, rivers and tides, dancer in the dark, irriversable, y tu mama tambien, akira kurosawa's dreams, princess mononoke, i heart huckubees, the machinest, sideways, all the qatsi films, baraka, matrix, beetlejuice, stand by me, parenthood, requium for a dream, etc.

Television:

lost, heros, 24,

Books:

Ken Wilber, the Dalai Lama, Harry potter, Ender's Game books, Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Hesse, Trungpa, Tich Nhat Hanh, Tolle, Eckhart, Dogen, Huxley, Snyder, Murakami, Rumi is amazing, Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume, recently i have been listening to books and lectures i download off limewire, like Alan Watts, Sogyal Rinpoche and Ram Dass and the teaching company. Jean Gebser, Whitman,

Heroes:

humans, battery hens, pigs, suffering animals , the hundreds of thousands suffering in darfur, tibet, iraq, afganistan, isreal, america, everywhere, all the beings suffering in the world, me, my mom, the dalai lama, gandhi, gotama buddha, all the teachers and peace lovers, there are so many heroes.

My Blog

Ranking and Cultural Relativism

i have come across a few textbook case "postmodern cultural relativists" here in Japan..fierce defenders of cultural relativism (like vegans defending the dolphin torturing at Taiji Bay using cultural...
Posted by David on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:15:00 PST

What is aloud to be the sacred?

What is aloud to be the sacred, the beloved? Can a car be elevated to the position of sacredness? Can the friend? the medicine? the cake? Seeing deeply into the interconnected core of all things, i...
Posted by David on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:07:00 PST

The relationship between Morals and Religion

This important idea is really realy important i think. In short, there are multiple intelligences, and in the same way being good at a musical instrument doesn't guarantee you will be good at sports, ...
Posted by David on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:05:00 PST

A drawing lesson

The more we draw, the more layers and fields appear within the artwork, and the more depth and history the art can contain. This history and time is usually felt as a vibrating magnetic pull that ho...
Posted by David on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:07:00 PST

Mantras, Yantras, Tantras, Mudras

Meditation, Yantras, Mantras, Mudras (and Notes from "The Radiance of Being")Hi everyone. I've been reading Alan Comb's "The Radiance of Being" and highly recommend it. Here are some general thoughts...
Posted by David on Sat, 19 May 2007 09:51:00 PST

new feelings and chakra

I am beginning to feel myself fall in love with human beings in a way I have never felt before. And it involves also falling into a deeper love with myself, its potentials, powers, perfections, and f...
Posted by David on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:57:00 PST

the wavetip analogy, a lot of mysticism and godhead

I was looking through some old notes from college and I found this very important diagram my Buddhism of East Asia professor drew for us. It was to help explain the experience of "Satori." It was a di...
Posted by David on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:23:00 PST

plasma and the bodisattva

So, I donated plasma for the first time Friday before going to a West-African music concert at a coffee shop in Matsuyama, and as I was sitting there feeling the blood leave my body and then get pumpe...
Posted by David on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:19:00 PST

Angelic Fuck in my mud body crusting under the afternoon sun

I really want to climb naked through the mountains and lie on the ground, letting the leaves and the dirt hold me like a mother would. I love being naked in nature. I just read about the Jains in Indi...
Posted by David on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:00:00 PST

Mirror Mind, Sky Mind, Light Mind, Awakened Mind, and some christian mysticism

The mind can be said to have four characteristics (look at your own mind right now to see this). One, it is a Mirror; it reflects whatever is placed in front of it. Second, it is the Sky; it is a spac...
Posted by David on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:20:00 PST