"Do not say, 'It is
morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the
first time as a newborn child that has no name."
Rabindranath Tagore
Imagine you are just
born, or maybe you just arrived from another planet and you see a
flower, except you don't know what “flower” is. There is no
stored image of it in your brain, no associations, no thoughts...just
looking, just seeing. What would be the experience? An absolute
wonder.... I think.
Everything is full of
wonder around us, but we tend to summarize, conceptualize,
categorize, therefore limit it's expression.
We can get glimpses of
that by quieting the mind and connecting with the space within, where
everything is just an awareness, no thoughts, no expectations. It is
only from that place that one can see and feel the true essence of
things. This can be achieved by meditation or any other meditative
endeavour?
As the Oriental Brush
Painting (Sumi-e) is a very reflective process, one gets to
experience (no matter for how brief those periods are) that
connection. Somehow we use the awareness to really see the object,
for that matter, ourselves “for the first time”.
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