Monday, August 29, 2022

Knowing


Of Knowing: 

there's a subtle difference here in terms of the moment, that we can only know something right now, immediate, and fresh to the mind and senses - but knowledge is the accumulation of all we've learned, with an often dry quality of history being memorized and repeated. There's value to both knowledge and knowing, yet only one is alive, direct within the present moment, and feeding our present curiosity to know and express the deeper meaning of the world. 

we thrive on the experience of knowing. 

and that's really the art of being alive, our ability to know things directly just by contact and experience and through this we gain a sense of creativity through which to express ourselves with new and present meaning. That's art, always vibrant, and even a past work of any creative display will again capture our attention with every possible view. Creativity is never about knowledge, although it can be a useful tool in many ways, but it's always our ability to perceive the world through the ready moment of the senses that we truly come to express our greatest and most creative truth to the world. Art is created right now, only now, and even later in display this aliveness is a force that gains and holds our attention. Any knowledge of art or artist is simply a memory and not a true part of aliveness. 

art is always immediate.

this is similar to meditation, that it takes place right now, and how the is mantra new and innocent through every repetition, revealing deeper aspects of this ever present moment. Meditation is an art and the mantra is the means of its expression. What we experience in meditation is a sure quality of knowing this moment, knowledge doesn't serve us here at all, and memories can't inform our senses nor do they fulfill our curiosity of what the presence holds. Only through our ability to perceive each moment directly do we come to deeply know our inner world. 

that's the art of meditation. 

it's art of truly knowing. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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