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Wednesday Dec 17, 2003
Instinct and Intuition
The distinction between instinct and intuition often gets blurred by indiscriminate usage. They are not synonyms.
Instinct:
Instinct is biological and of the body. Instinct is metabolic and immediate. These sensations can be measured. You know when you’re thirsty, hungry, threatened, cold, smell bread baking, or feel the heat of sexual arousal. You don’t need a committee to vote on what your basic instincts are directly telling you.
Thursday Dec 11, 2003
Zen - Simply Profound
Every true artist intuitively knows that what follows is true absolutely.
Steve Hagen, author and head teacher at the Dharma Field Zen Center puts it eloquently in his book, Buddhism Plain and Simple:
What is Zen?
Zen Buddhism is about awareness. Not awareness of something in particular, but awareness itself—being awake, alert, in touch with what is actually happening. It’s about examining and exploring the most basic questions of life. It’s about relying on the immediate experience of this present moment. It’s about freedom of mind. It’s not about belief, doctrine, formula, or tradition.
Friday Dec 05, 2003
Factory Rejects a la Pop Art
To all the collectors who feel they got ripped off with “fake” art from Andy Warhol:
A recent report in Vanity Fair stated that as many as one in six Warhol works is a fake. According to the expose, works that Warhol “discussed or produced in the company of Factory assistants have been denied (as being authentic by the Warhol Estate), despite multiple affidavits from those assistants.”
The question remains: Was Andy even present when those art pieces were made in his New York City studio, known as the Factory?
Saturday Nov 29, 2003
Feel the Rythym
My art is like dancing; I have to let God lead.
Thursday Nov 27, 2003
Thanks and Giving
In his small masterpiece Creating Affluence: Wealth Consciousness in the Field of All Possibilities, Deepak Chopra writes that the material in the book is highly concentrated and that it must first be metabolized and experienced in the reader’s consciousness for results to take place. This tip to the reader is invaluable and organically true. This book is a gem because it not only describes the qualities you must be aware of, but the precise mechanism to fulfill your desires.
Among the various natural attributes of an affluent consciousness that Deepak lists are gratitude, generosity, and God.
