Many years ago I was a heavy equipment operator, one day I climbed down from an earthmover as my feet hit the ground! I realized everything was God!!! The machine, the soil, the stones, The vegetation, EVERYTHING... I could not tell you how long this knowing lasted minutes or hours?? This experience, along with my sister dying some years later, Has invited me to pursue the Truth. Everyday I try to understand what this is all about..
I remember E. Tolle saying that one day he woke up and everything around him felt beautiful. He would pick up random objects and marvle as if he had just come into existence. Now i understand.. the night before he suffered a terrible egoic episode which hit him so hard that it dismantled his mental structures, he had a mental break down. The next day his mind was unreactive, unresponsive making it possible to experience beauty in one overwhealming way.. he must have suffered long and hard before his mind collapsed.. poor guy.. on the bright sight.. now he's free of suffering hey:) and he's helping other people learn how suffering comes about.. awesome man, just like Rupert..
One can only experience beauty when the mental guard is off. When something that we see doesnt trigger any deffence systems, mental and emotional, we experience a relaxation and a feeling of complete acceptance and we say it's beautiful no matter what it is and how it looks like. That is how the same objects can be at one time beautiful and at other times not. Experience of beauty is about an inner state of mind more than about the object that we percieve beautiful. So when you talk to ppl and they openly show their exhillaration you know their mental state is open and accepting and they are just a great company
If beauty brings Mind to an end, I wonder if it's reasonable to conclude that anything that makes you doubt every move you make is the opposite of beauty..
I call those objects, "Conscious Objects" or "energetic realities". I strive to create them in my art and music practise. But obviously, the thing is, it's not really for my benefit, because all objects have this subjective, alive quality to them, it just seems to be in varying concentrations. Other people seem to have their own knowingness of who I am in varying degrees as well. I talk to my Buddhas on the intuitive level - they appear to me to be alive, real, human beings, even though from a material perspective, they are "just statues" - I know they are real and they point to my reality. They also tend to nudge me intuitively when something needs to be done on the outer level, haha! My Buddhas say "Do this!" so I do. I am their humble slave! hahaha. Marvellous.
If at the core I am aware, sentient, intelligent, alive. And if its all the one same substance appearing differently, then how could anything else in experience not be varying expressions of that sentience, intelligence, aliveness, awareness?
There is no such thing as ‘sacred art’. EVERY - THING has the potential to reveal Beauty, it’s just that for different people, that thing that has the power to collapse the sense of separation, is different. For Rupert, he is classically and high end trained in everything. That is how he came into this life: to live the high-life in art whether through pottery - working with and as the very best in that discipline/genre, or whether it be through the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition - he’s up with there with the best there too. His conditioning was to be up there with the best, so that is the lens he sees through. His particular high-end conditioning still reigns that ‘classical high-end’ gives rise to this ‘special’ genre of ‘sacred art’. That’s why he speaks of Rembrandt and Cezanne and Beethoven. He thinks it only lives there. It doesn’t. It lives everywhere. But his conditioned eyes cannot see it elsewhere! Ive lived my life right through the classical training of music, having studied music over the last 1000 years, high-end classical and in folk, jazz, rock, pop, swing, brass band, film music, and I can honestly say that for me, Truth and Beauty is more readily found in the vernacular expressions of music. I’ve listened to thousands of hours of the High Classical composers and yet I find Truth and Beauty shining more readily through modern music, folk music and pop music of the last 50 years MUCH easier than Beethoven. There is only ‘sacred art’ in relation to Rupert’s own limited high-end conditioning. There is really no such thing. His eyes simply are not able to hear/see Beauty in the rest of the world outside of the high-end genre. His his video was made a while ago; I would hazard a guess that he now DOESS know this. 😊 Look up ANY song on RU-vid and google the lyrics at the same time. It’s RIGHT THERE blatantly coming at you. In the vernacular - areas of music often derided for them common-a-day quality and devalued. It lives right there in the commonplace also…for those of us who live more in the everyday-world. We don’t have to start wandering round art galleries into high faluten art! And yes, Nature is on hand for EVERYONE and is why it’s a common way to Beauty. If you are sold a message that it’s only in this special ‘sacred art’, and that doesn’t work for you, you will not find it, if that genre doesn’t work for you. *Look for it in line with where you have lived your life.* Don’t try to go to the ivory towers art and music. That’s just Rupert’s way and the only way he knows. Some spiritual teachers have been all over The Map. And some haven’t. There are limitations to ALL spiritual teachers. They are not perfect. They can still only deliver via their remaining conditioning. ❤ The woman herself teaches Rupert this when she mentions about the red canvas…but we are still talking about high-end art… Examples on RU-vid of vernacular music: Adele - Rolling in the Deep (the video where she is sitting in a chair and there’s the white townscape and everything is smashing around her is ABSOLUTELY DIVINE in the vernacular popular music scene.) Take That - A Million Love Songs Seal - A Kiss from a Rose You can literally find it in EVERYTHING. Just look up your favourite songs on RU-vid and rediscover the lyrics and possibly visuals also. There are bands who do it more explicitly and possibly, more knowingly: Ajeet Haevn The Gloaming
Spira is a mystery to me. I could listen (and I did) to his “you are the presence of awareness”-mantra until the cows come home, yet everything becomes effortlessly super-clear with even the slightest experience of beauty: It is totally obvious that “art” is not a thing but rather an experience (of being shocked into awe aka silent presence). It is totally obvious that “beauty” is not a feature “out there” but the collapsing into yourself or being. I owe a lot of mystical experiences to art. But I particularly like Japanese calligraphy which focusses entirely on this immediacy and intimacy that is usually a mere byproduct in western art. A well done Shoudou makes your perception flip from “a calligraphy endowed with beauty” to “beauty (the only reality) that appears just a bit calligraphy-like”. Just saying.
In a perfect synchronicity, I had just been blown away by beauty in of all things a coca-cola commercial, then I saw Rupert's video on this. He's right the mind collapsed in the presence and awe of beauty: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IR-35zvSq9g.html
@@andreanika4055 you mean it doesn't correspond to YOUR perception of reality.. People standing on different levels on a ladder will definitely have different views of 'reality'.. The higher you climb the crazier people who are still at the bottom will think you are.. Unless you're thirsty to evolve, then you'll want to climb higher as well..
