In 2004 was ik al bezig met wat het nou eigenlijk is wat ons mensen beweegt en stagneert. Ik maakte op de kunstacademie een compilatie van een tiental onafhankelijke lezingen gegeven door zen boeddhisten en vooraanstaande westerse sprekers en filosofen. Zoals toen valt het ook nu weer op hoe universeel en tijdloos deze stof is en hoezeer wij als mensen hier maar mee blijven worstelen. In mijn optiek komt het er allemaal op neer dat het de bedoeling is dat we onze essentie en innerlijke wijsheid vinden en daarin de bezieling en verbinding met het grotere geheel.
De wijsheid quotes van Zen monniken, beat poets, revolutionairs en filosofen:
Form is emptyness, emptyness itself is form
The workshop is in the mind
All of us need to be liberated from our culture to a certain extend
You learn fundamentally words, that is to say in terms of a symbolic language about life
Assumptions that we all seem to have, that we simply take to be true
We are identifying with all the wrong things and we IGNORE the genuine reality
That’s why we have problems; that wrong conceptual mind, wrong view.
Are you even aware of what the contents of your mind are?
External conditions do play a major role in our lives, that’s very obvious
The ego likes to be flattered, wants to be wanted
You have within you a burning desire to find out what it’s all about
You can have motivation change, action change
Develop your own innate wisdom
That each of you posesses, but just needs to be recognised and uncovered.
Gotta go all that long way around to go back, to the thing that it ones had
The nature of the mind is empty
And every thought we have is a seed that we plant in our mind , that will bring a fruit in terms of our future experiences.
You see, so that’s why we need to carefully check, look at ourselves and the mind, that’s very important day by day.
And that’s terribly difficult!
Deconstruct in order to learn to reconstruct views that are in sync with reality.
Disrupt the normal flow of interchange.
Right cause, wrong cause, negative, positive.
That inner wisdom, which could be called god, it could be called anything, it’s just a name!
Feel embarassed by religious questions
God is just a word
Changing the mind isn’t something mysterious, it’s REALLY changing the way we see things.
Which bit is the me?
It is animated by a spirit
“wrong conceptual mind”
Mijn praktijk is er op gericht om samen met jou te onderzoeken naar wat jouw “wrong conceptual mind” en “wrong views” zijn, zodat we die kunnen gaan deconstrueren en reconstrueren zodat jij gaat leven vanuit wat jouw spirit en je innerlijke wijsheid je ingeeft.