Awareness Painting

 

Expression of the invisible through visible means

 

I first "planted" an image on canvas after receiving the Initiation - "Introduction to the Gate of Tantra" - from one of the outstanding contemporary meditation teachers, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in 2004.

 

And it seems to me that a certain trace of that Initiation traced in my paintings. They convey a state of awareness. Later I met confirmation of this idea from another contemporary Lama and artist:

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THE MIND EXPRESSING ITSELF FREELY — WITHOUT FEAR OR JUDGMENT

 

The essential practice of meditation is to allow the mind to express itself freely without fear or judgment.

In each moment of awareness we encounter impressions of the outer world through our sense perception as well as our inner world of thoughts, feelings and emotions. When, through the process of meditation, we are able to let this incredible array of experience be, without trying to reject what we fear or pull in what we feel attracted to — when we relax into experience without trying to manipulate it in any way — we have a complete experience of mind, naked and unaltered.

Art, when it is free of such notions of beauty and ugliness, ‘shoulds’ and ‘shouldn’ts’ can be used to express this complete experience of mind. When art evolves from this understanding it provides the possibility for those who see it to also experience the natural and unfabricated nature of their own awareness.

 

   Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche (www.kongtruljigme.com)

 

Below you can see this from your own experience.