Spirit World & Guidance
The difference between Shakespeare and Euripides is that the former believed the plays were by him. Whereas Euripides believed they were through him.
There is but one Guidance for all beings; that is, for all spirits within all beings – now and throughout time.
One Guidance. One spirit. One being.
Accepting all that others do to me as coming through them, as the Karmic Plan. All being, in this sense, acts of God. And all not for me but for the spirit within me.
I accept all for the spirit within.
(Well, not in fact – but at least in fantasy.)
Note:
Shinran taught that what we seem to do ourselves is really Amida doing through us. Our very invocation of Her, nembutsu, is Her invoking Herself through us: our nembutsu – Her play.
The power inherent in one dot: its yang so strong that it can balance the yin of a large canvas – if it is at just the right spot.
Many of my paintings have a dot; usually just one, sometimes many. I am always astounded by the power of a dot. Just one alone on a canvas seems to have more power than many lines. To me, my most satisfying paintings consist of but one dot and one curved line. Both placed as Guided.
As he lay dying, the great conductor Pierre Monteux stated, “When I see Brahms, I must apologize to him for the way I have played his beautiful music.”
The painter’s eye, in meditation free, does fly from earth to Heaven, from Heaven to earth,