Zuihitsu

To Know my mother’s Soul (and thus my own), I need to see her as the Mother of Love.

And to so commune, Soul to Soul, with her as Her, as God the Goddess.

You can’t Aspire until you Know you have a Soul, for it is from the Soul that Aspiration arises.

And to Know your Soul, you must first Know your mother’s – often starting not directly with her but with a sunset, a painting, a

I believe Blake’s “first Vision of Light” that “Appear’d on the Sea” was, basically, his mother as The Mother.

Lafcadio Hearn writes of “the question which all the sages have had to face: Is the universe moral?”

“Whether moral or immoral the cosmic process,” there must be one conviction: “the certainty that man should pursue the highest moral ideal with all his power to the unknown end, even though the suns in their courses should

I exist
to heal.

If this is not a mere grandiose delusion – as well it may be – then there are certain corollaries:

1. The particular modality employed with any sufferer at any moment is utterly unimportant.
2. Basic to the healing is helping the sufferer to find his Soul, and thus reduce his

I believe that to overcome our anguish (the Buddha’s First Noble Truth) we must find our Souls, our Buddha-Nature. And this comes through finding our mother’s Soul, for we were – and still are – of her. Are her.

One Way to her as

No tune for the composer,
no subject for the painter.
Free! Free! At last.

The twentieth century’s
great gift to the Arts.

“The reason we find nothing to dislike in the drawings made by children is that in them the inherent nature of man finds expression without being thwarted or frustrated.” 

— Soetsu Yanagi

And it is the subject that thwarts and frustrates the painter’s free expression of his inherent nature, his Buddhahood, his

If the painting
needs an explanation,
then it’s not realistic
– for life is Untitled.

What is Creativity?

1. It is the grateful return of Inspiration as Aspiration.

2. It is the active meditation arising out of the still.