The Value Of Art In The World

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Divine River Of Life
Will you carry me?
Divine Ocean Of Bliss
Will you bury me?
Divine Water Of Knowledge
Will you reveal to me?
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Hail, River Divine
Your stream sounds so pure
Hail, Ocean Supreme
Shall I just let me go?
My splintered, scattered self
At once, your waves devour
I am just a tiny bird
Painted on your sky
I am just a loyal slave
Your one and only wife
You stripped me of my sanity
Now, I forgot my name
A minute drop of blood
Wipe away the stain
Now I'm drinking of your holy wine
You are all I see
A drunken fool in ecstasy
A leaf upon your tree
With nothing left to do
But playing dead with you
Until you kick me out
To write a song or two
A Little Story Painting The Value Of Art
You have your house, and it’s firm.
You live in it as if it were your kingdom.
You cherish it. It’s all you know.
An artist comes along and opens a window.
The rays of the sun peek in and poke you gently.
With time, you, the inhabitant, notice the light.
Is there more outside of your house?
More time passes, and you realize that life is found outside of your house.
What you’ve built is not your kingdom but your prison, and your prison keeps you from life.
You demolish your house fiber by fiber.
There was no house to begin with; there is just God, and walls are made of clay.
God is the world. Grace is the sun.
The house of clay is the poor state of the lost inhabitant.
By the grace of God, an artist opens a window.
If you were to put a price tag on it, how would you value such an act? You forgot your part. Just maybe you forgot who you are. Who, and who as an artist. Incalculable is the value of potent art in the world. Incalculable is the value of a living artist. An artist that has tasted God, bathed in love, embraced love in the flesh-brings God to the world.
When you bathe in bliss like Rumi you write poems of bliss. When you are divine love like Milarepa you sing poems of eternal love. Rumi and Milarepa are my favorite poets for their poems are alive. I call that ‘Poetry Of Dissolving Identity’. When words take you from individuality to the collective being. When you disappear into the work of art, that is art. That is the task of the artist: to become whole and to heal through art. Death is not art. Art is alive.
Words that point to God. You give a taste. That is art. The poet gives a taste and the poem comes alive in you.
When you are alive you create living work; work that lives on its own. Work that plants seeds in the receiver of the art. That is how art enlivens the world. A window from God to individual souls.
Why is art beautiful? Because it rings true. Somewhere in your heart, you feel the love that connects you with individual souls through the thread of God.
Art emanates the state the artist is in when creating art. In deep meditation you are life, and what you create in meditation is the representation of life itself. It points to life; life that cannot be claimed but lived. Art conceived from the collective state of being brings that very state to the world. An artifact of God. Living Artifacts. That is art. Death is not art.
The highest potential of a living artist is to create living art. The journey is long and internal. The journey of art is a spiritual journey to your soul. I will write more on spirituality and shedding the past through making art in further episodes. For now, know that your art is a representation of your current state of being. The more you shed your past, traumas, and restrictions of authentic self-expression the more potent your art becomes. Self-discovery lies at the root of it all.
Through the spiritual path of art, you may awaken to love and, in time, awaken through your art. Demolish your house and permeate love. Potent art will make you abundant within and in time without. Once you know yourself, you know your part in the world.
By uncovering who you are by demolishing layers of falsehood, you uncover your soul. By uncovering your soul, you uncover your unique part. By serving that part, you will generate money for yourself. Falseness breeds falseness. Love can only be met with love.
The truth is simple. Uncover who you are, uncover your part, and humbly serve. Your greatest joy also happens to be the world's greatest joy.
This podcast is about the spiritual path of art. It will lead you to consciously face yourself and uncover the truth of your being by gently and patiently making art. Your art is a mirror of your state of being-a wonderful learning tool! In time, you uncover the gift your soul holds, and by sharing that gift, you will suppor...