What we Love

 This is the longer version, for the short(er) one, please go here: What we Love on Lov3
 My point really is to somehow get you to watch the video (see below) with awareness and Love.

Just a few minutes ago I marveled at the human body – watching a dance performance on youtube – at the same time aware of how the amazing technology of today has made possible for everyone everywhere to partake in communities, culture, beauty and wonder like at no other time in recent history – and that there is a side to humans that is truly amazing. Whether you love poetry enough that you would not want to live without it, or film, art, pottery, sports, dance or architecture, love good music or marvel at the amazing technology giving someone who needs it a 3D printed new skull – whether you just love love love your family, your friends or superbowl or the exploration of space in true science – or just love LIFE – consider this:
“Simply replanting trees, is not replanting communities.”

In the Zen Garden

Yes, as much as we come together in groups, for communities, mutually supportive in when they work together … including the sangha of your spiritual path – consider what is said is this beautiful short film (just down below)

Maybe this IS the peak of human achievement we are experiencing at this time - and maybe the ONLY time  in history of this planet EVER for events like healing circles in the Prosperity Ashram  to be able to happen – because of the technology available to us today (oh – you too  can request a healing  at the Prosperity Path Forum here)

Our relatives, our family – Love – manifested – in the spirit of gratitude – for the Love of our earthly home. Without “nature” – flowers, trees, grasses, bubbling brooks, sound of ocean waves – and animals of all kinds – like the many songbirds in the spring – I would not even still be here.

I – the human and its resident soul -  owe nature any life  or worthwhile activity I can do today … and I love her – in all her beauty beyond words and AWESOMENESS – from gently spring rain,  to the blade of grass or little bug right here in front of me – I have been blessed. Then, if you you add the exploration made possible by technology …beyond words – and then, once you relearn even a little bit of high sense perception – wow – and without her – you’d not do or feel any of what YOU love.

Being in nature – there is love – it is simply there.

In the end, it really is all about waking up and learning how to move, about wonder and gratitude - for what in some tradition is called: the precious human birth. To view the destruction of  nature happening now with impartiality is difficult. It is what is happening however.

But this site is about what we love …and I love this earth home – I love nature – the birds and the bees and all that.

This is a good video – I do hope you watch it. I agree with the narrator:  the earth will regenerate, re-green – we don’t have to be part of it.
….. and Love is going to bring forth another form that recognizes it – self as that.

Namaste and Be Blessed 

Considerations on Beauty, Aesthetic and Level of Consciousness - and some questions

A saying by a Buddhist teacher, transmitted through Ken Wilber goes:
"The way you treat your environment is the way you treat your mind."
Not quite the same, this has also been said: if your environment is messy, so is your mind.

I really admire, adore, would like to live in a space that reflects clarity and aesthetics - and then there is: a ratio of work to do and stuff to store and organize/to available space, time and energy in which to accomplish this. As with all things, there is keeping with appropriateness to time, place and people.

I would like to recount a  little episode, or a mental vignette for you if you will, that was brought to my attention the other day. Before I do this, here  are a couple of background considerations on beauty and the desire or impulse to be beautiful, pleasing in appearance and also have your surroundings be like that. The question here is: what is the motive for being beautiful and/or keeping your space aesthetic and clean? Here is how I understood the places this desire and associated actions can come from if one uses a simple 3 level scheme.

- You do yourself up to be as beautiful as you can be just for your own narcissistic need -  whether you are actually saying that or not - this is egocentric motivation.

- You do yourself up for a relationship, your lover, friend, family, your tribe - this is called ethnocentric in it's motivation.

- You are being beautiful as a gift and the pleasure it brings to everyone around you - all sentient beings.
Aesthetic and harmony, being that which is pleasing, are part of your life and expression of being. Everything that is arising is part of the perfect manifestation of the great perfection. It's just not yourself, it also is your environment. Here  beauty and aesthetic is an alignment. All you are doing  -  is honoring the beauty of the great perfection. Objects that are arising that are around you are ornaments of that perfection. A simple aesthetic, balanced and harmonious,  is  an indication of alignment with a certain purity.

So then:

A small group was gathered in a fairly large space for a previously scheduled 45 minute special type of movement energetics class. It is a new class being worked out. Things are going well.

Then someone not part of the class,  with great intent of making a proprietary part of this workspace clean, starts vacuuming in another part of the space - with increases dust, but mostly is very loud, making it somewhat difficult to hear the instructor. This goes on off and on the rest of the class. Generally the cleaner desires and is able to maintain a fairly aesthetic looking space.

So here are few  questions:

1- In light of above considerations of motivation - in which of those 3 levels  was the motivation likely centered for the cleaning action at that time?

2- In general, can, in the same act, be the motivation double, ie: egocentric as well as be aligned with the higher, balanced, perfect aesthetic?

3- Where does this leave a messy creative chaos?

4- Are we back to: beauty is in the eye of the beholder - or is there something objective about real beauty?
(See my previous post)

5- Is (or was, not sure if same is true of the younger generation)  Japanese cultural plus enforced by necessity order in cramped quarters out of a sheer lack of space an expression of higher level of consciousness?

6- Is a degree of messiness and disorderliness out of sheer lack of manpower and energy to get all the work done as well as simultaneously maintaining a high level of certain aesthetic space  reflective of a lower level of consciousness?

I have not read all that much about these things, ....just wondering.

One of the things I am juggling at the moment is: how to get all the work done as well as establish and be able to maintain an aesthetically pleasing workspace. Sheer time and space constraints seem to say: impossible.
It could  be that  energy for more  work gets liberated having handled a certain degree of "inevitable"  messiness.

7- If maintaining a highly aesthetic space and personal appearance out of any motivation comes at a cost to others in the same group and their work, how can it be justified? Can it be justified?

So much for now.
Given the general Gestalt of what is happening - answers will manifest themselves.

In closing for this post, here is something I heard today in regards to our planetary condition and all the investigations into consciousness:

"This is the time to DO consciousness....".

 The Blessing Well

What is Beauty?

Beauty - is it state dependent, is it really in the eye of the beholder?

Seeing a number of incredible photography of incredibly beautiful places as well as artwork, I wonder: When does something qualify as beautiful to us?

What is the something that, no matter where, when or by whom it is viewed, will inspire this sense of awe, aesthetic and beauty? Or is there really such a thing?  What about nature - and sacred geometry?

What about - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Or, in other words: is it dependent on state of consciousness, on perception in inner experience?

I recall something from many, many years ago. I was looking out the window across houses and houses onto the smoking factories of a big city. It was sunset time - and suddenly everything turned into beauty and perfection - pure Beauty and Perfection. I was standing there in awe for quite some time. I never would have guessed it could happen - given I was not very fond of industrial smoking factories. But wow - sheer perfect beauty. The Beatles were playing, on tape: I hope you understand...(to the tune of: I wanna hold your hand)

What aesthetic was that?

So then back to: what is Beauty, what is beautiful - and how can you tell?
Despite thoughts and preliminary answers about this, the questions nonetheless got rekindled by seeing such beautiful images on Facebook, posted by different folks.

Beauty - The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas)