Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Dzogchen, Cezanne and Human Perception

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Journal Éveillé is an Informal Exploration of the Natural Mind in Literature and Painting

Index of Painting & Art Notes

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"The channel that goes from the heart to the eyes is called the "crystal kati channel".....The Golden Letters by John Myrdhin Reynolds....The Golden Letters by John Myrdhin Reynolds

“The Wisdom of the Crystal Kati Channel……An aspect of the fruition of the Path of Thogal is the opening of the Crystal Kati channel. This is an extremely subtle channel that links the heart directly to the eyes…….This fruition is often described as the resolution of all phenomena…….This means your heart is pouring out of your eyes as you connect with your nature as the essence of reality…….In this process you are learning to see with your heart……Dzogchen is about letting go of your conceptual mind and learning to see with your heart….”…..Excerpted from…………….https://www.reddit.com/r/Dzogchen/comments/38onb9/the_wisdom_of_the_crystal_kati_channel/

“Unsatisfied with the Impressionist dictum that painting is primarily a reflection of visual perception, Cézanne sought to make of his artistic practice a new kind of analytical discipline. In his hands, the canvas itself takes on the role of a screen where an artist's visual sensations are registered as he gazes intensely, and often repeatedly, at a given subject.”….http://www.theartstory.org/artist-cezanne-paul.htm

"Discovering drala is indeed to establish ties to your world, so that each perception becomes unique. It is to see with the heart, so that what is invisible to the eye becomes visible as the living magic of reality." (Trungpa: 1984..pg 105)

"The Nature of Mind is not only ... primordial purity (ka-dag), but it is equally characterized by a luminous clarity (gsal-ba) and intrinsic awareness (rig-pa)……the light of awareness that illuminates our world. ... This inner light (nang >od), the light of awareness, resides in the hollow space inside ... a maroon-colored carnelian stone decorated with white crystals ... . This inner light of awareness proceeds from the hollow space ..., moving upward through the kati channel, to the two ... lenses to focus this light. The two ... are the gateways for the emergence into outer space of this inner light of awareness…..Thus, this light and the images that appear in this light, are actually something internal ..., but here they manifest in the empty space in front of oneself. The light ... is projected ... out through the lenses of the two eyes into the space in front, much like one is watching a cinema show. This process may be compared to a magic latern or a projector. ...The objects that appear are not really outside oneself. ……http://texts.00.gs/Practice_of_Dzogchen_in_the_Zhang-Zhung_Tradition,_2.htm…..Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet: Translations from the The Gyalwa Chaktri of Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung, and The Seven-fold Cycle of the Clear Light By:John Myrdhin Reynolds (translator)

"Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that describe his encounter with the Native American chief of the Taos pueblos in New Mexico in 1932….I was able to talk with him as I have rarely been able to talk with a European,’ Jung recalls…Chief Ochwiay Biano, which means Mountain Lake, must have sensed a kindred spirit in the Swiss doctor, because he was devastatingly candid with him….‘See how cruel the whites look, their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring expression; they are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think that they are all mad…..When Jung asks why he thinks they are all mad, Mountain Lake replies, ‘They say they think with their heads.’….’Why of course, says Jung, ‘What do you think with?’….’We think here,’ says Chief Mountain Lake, indicating his heart……".. https://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/jung-in-conversation-with-a-native-american-chief/ http://carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot.com/2012/07/conversation-with-native-american-chief.html

"Maya.....literally "illusion" or "magic"..... In Vedic literature...., Māyā connotes a "magic show, an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem"....Māyā is also a spiritual concept connoting "that which exists, but is constantly changing and thus is spiritually unreal", and the "power or the principle that conceals the true character of spiritual reality".

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