You ask about me being guided to paint. I would say I'm guided to heal through painting: my painting for others, then helping them to paint for others. All guidance for altruistic art, whatever the particular
“I have very little of Mr. Blake's company; he is always in Paradise.” -- Catherine Blake To invoke Amida Buddha with Pure Faith is to be instantly transported by Her to the Free Land, to Heaven
Well, I'm not one for a dress code. But when a man comes to see me – urgently – for help to stave off the divorce his wife is threatening, I am surprised when he arrives
The music we hear is third generation Inspiration: The composer Inspired by the Spirit World writes the composition as his Aspirational response. Then the performer is Inspired by the composer's Aspiration to Aspire when playing it.
The ultimate answer to the problem of digitalized music is very simple. Just become Aware that the music was Inspired: as Inspiration from the Spirit World. And, further, that it can then be as Inspiration for
All aesthetic criticism ceases when you Realize that the work has been – can only be – Inspired from the Spirit World.
To believe, to truly Believe, in the Spirit is to Know that your every thought and action – and everyone's – is Inspired: by Heaven's Breath.
“Human nature is good just as water seeks low ground.” -- Mencius* And as it is the nature of smoke to rise, so it is for humans to Aspire. * Mencius, trans. D.C Lau (London:
Any poem, any painting, any act of creativity, can be seen, Known, as an Instance of God, when we Realize that it has been Inspired.
Don't concentrate on the poem, the painting, the music, itself – but on the Inspiration that initiated it.
