Why is that ,we appreciate a painting of black and white picture of a old women’s face or a broken chair, more than, the realistic women or new chair.
Do we have a different set of eyes for seeing an art and other for seeing the natural reality? What is seeing these pictures with added value to reality or what is seeing nature with subtracted values, even though the nature presents to us every 'moment', continuous and more powerful pictures than the man made into an art and has special experiences of them.
As a separate entity, when we see nature, we are only trained to see the whole 'in parts' - like mountains, rivers, roads, buildings, parks, chairs, persons etc. The 'me' that is a part of the whole feels subjective and the not me or other than me as the objective world. The mind is tuned in, to ‘focus’ on objectivity as other than itself. To do this, it is trained to 'know' the changing patterns, while it remains blind to the Unchanging Self, that knows all This. The change catches the attention or focus of the mind. To see wholeness including the 'me' as a part, is to feel complete and this normally is not the case and causes a sense of incompleteness, begging to seek its completion again in objectivity, which cannot happen. So the wholeness is always hidden and partiality is always highlighted, just to play the light game of subject -object world.
In as far as the painting is concerned, we are trained to see the 'whole' and not in parts as mountains, rivers, roads, buildings, parks, chairs, persons etc., and this somehow feels special.
For example, seeing a flower in its wholeness, is more lovely, than seeing the same in parts like an assembly of petals and stem. This is what actually takes place in the painting. One sees the wholeness including the frame and the contents and the background texture of paper or canvass, which is all pleasing to the mind as a whole.. If at all one could see the wholeness of the normal seeing in nature, the pleasure of the seeing scenes in its infinite pixels will also be satisfying. But the part 'me' comes in the way of seeing wholeness and so, the world becomes, a dreaded place being continuously negotiated to avoid pain and seek pleasure.
The reason that we do not tend to see the world in its wholeness, is because, we consider ourselves as a whole and the rest of the world as a ‘sum’ of parts. However creation cannot be partitioned and will always remain whole as the 'knowing' and also the known, with thoughts apparently separating knowing from being, as if the two could be independent of each other.
It is the thought or our conditioning that prevents the mind from seeing the wholeness of what we see ‘as’ the world. When the thought that, we are a separate part, 'dissolves', the wholeness unfoldss itself clearly. The illusory boundary, of an inside me and an outside world, loses its power and wholeness is somehow known and experienced. The experience of being 'natural' without a 'me' sense is a self confirming experience of wholeness and has a nature of peace or tranquillity or stillness as its quality.
To know and experience the wholeness in nature - we need to understand that 'knowing' is our reality and we need to remove the ignorance, caused in thought, that make feel 'you' are only a part of the whole. Creation has two aspects, ( in fact only one that seems two) of 'Being' or as aliveness that has a self knowing capacity. We know creation as knowing itself. This knowing is alive and is the Being. So the Being is Knowing or its a Knowing Being. In the absence of the 'I' thought, or the making of a 'me' sense, the 'me' loses itself into this 'I' business or the 'Knowing Being'. This what we naturally are. We simply 'are' as a knowing being.
So the absence of sepration paves way for presence of fullness. Until then The presence of separation, feels an absence of fullness, that causes separation to seek fullness. As long a seeking prevails, separation prevails, because the seeking creates a feel of limitation from fullness.
As a separate entity, when we see nature, we are only trained to see the whole 'in parts' - like mountains, rivers, roads, buildings, parks, chairs, persons etc. The 'me' that is a part of the whole feels subjective and the not me or other than me as the objective world. The mind is tuned in, to ‘focus’ on objectivity as other than itself. To do this, it is trained to 'know' the changing patterns, while it remains blind to the Unchanging Self, that knows all This. The change catches the attention or focus of the mind. To see wholeness including the 'me' as a part, is to feel complete and this normally is not the case and causes a sense of incompleteness, begging to seek its completion again in objectivity, which cannot happen. So the wholeness is always hidden and partiality is always highlighted, just to play the light game of subject -object world.
In as far as the painting is concerned, we are trained to see the 'whole' and not in parts as mountains, rivers, roads, buildings, parks, chairs, persons etc., and this somehow feels special.
For example, seeing a flower in its wholeness, is more lovely, than seeing the same in parts like an assembly of petals and stem. This is what actually takes place in the painting. One sees the wholeness including the frame and the contents and the background texture of paper or canvass, which is all pleasing to the mind as a whole.. If at all one could see the wholeness of the normal seeing in nature, the pleasure of the seeing scenes in its infinite pixels will also be satisfying. But the part 'me' comes in the way of seeing wholeness and so, the world becomes, a dreaded place being continuously negotiated to avoid pain and seek pleasure.
The reason that we do not tend to see the world in its wholeness, is because, we consider ourselves as a whole and the rest of the world as a ‘sum’ of parts. However creation cannot be partitioned and will always remain whole as the 'knowing' and also the known, with thoughts apparently separating knowing from being, as if the two could be independent of each other.
It is the thought or our conditioning that prevents the mind from seeing the wholeness of what we see ‘as’ the world. When the thought that, we are a separate part, 'dissolves', the wholeness unfoldss itself clearly. The illusory boundary, of an inside me and an outside world, loses its power and wholeness is somehow known and experienced. The experience of being 'natural' without a 'me' sense is a self confirming experience of wholeness and has a nature of peace or tranquillity or stillness as its quality.
To know and experience the wholeness in nature - we need to understand that 'knowing' is our reality and we need to remove the ignorance, caused in thought, that make feel 'you' are only a part of the whole. Creation has two aspects, ( in fact only one that seems two) of 'Being' or as aliveness that has a self knowing capacity. We know creation as knowing itself. This knowing is alive and is the Being. So the Being is Knowing or its a Knowing Being. In the absence of the 'I' thought, or the making of a 'me' sense, the 'me' loses itself into this 'I' business or the 'Knowing Being'. This what we naturally are. We simply 'are' as a knowing being.
So the absence of sepration paves way for presence of fullness. Until then The presence of separation, feels an absence of fullness, that causes separation to seek fullness. As long a seeking prevails, separation prevails, because the seeking creates a feel of limitation from fullness.
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