Peeking through the Veil.

I pre-wrote this while sitting in front of the Museum under the tent while it drizzled outside in the parking lot.

The more we try to stop our minds from excessive thinking the aggressively thoughts will manifest in our minds, perhaps because in our efforts to slow down thinking we are also creating 'Gaps' or spaces for more thoughts to rush in and fill it up. Soon we lose track of reality as it is in the here and now, we stray into unconscious delusions state of being, like sleep walking or better yet the Zombies. creating more vexations as we go along. The world becomes a miserable place when just about the whole planet is overrun by humanoid Zombies preying upon one another to sustain life.
The mind cannot be stopped but it can be silenced by gradual practice of any form of Meditation or martial Arts, Painting, Poetry, Bonzai collecting, or even Rock collecting; the mind can be slowed down to a halt by being in the space and time of the here and now; being the flower or the sunset, being the buttefly or the sparrow, being the sounds that permeates everything and the wind that sooth your worried mind. This is acceptance through 'skillfull means' and understanding of the nature of the 'Dual thinking mind."
For there to be a Peak, there has to be a valley.
For there to be sorrow there is much happiness to seek for,
For there to be darkness let there be light!
CB2.

Journeying into the unknown landscapes of the mind is like walking in the valley of death, there is no-thingness, there is only the state of being in the moment in timelessness and what lies further down the road is a matter for no concern, (Krishnamutrit's secret applies itself well here- I don't mind what happens..) It is not a matter of denial but one of admitting to an enlightening insight about who he was and living by it to become a great teacher of the human nature. But his path and so is Eckhart Tolle's contemporay philosophical thinking are no an easy path to follow as they evolved into who the were through living the experience day by day observing the mind and its mental activities.
Baba Ram Dass, (Prof. Richard Alpert) wrote a whole book on the subject of, "Be Here NOw" and it was more than a national best Seller as more Hippies lived by it like their Instant karmic Bible. Eckhart Tolle wrote his 'The Power of NOW" and got the travellers and seekers all over the world up in an uproar of something meditating upon especially now that the effects O Ram Dass's ideas have just about washed off from human consciousness just like the Hippie movement itself, Tolle's insightful discoveries is a spiritual gift to humanity; Human Collective Consciousness. Just how to spread the knowledge is our collective effort for those who see 'it' happening. In being and Artist, in being a seamstress, a baker a gardener or a computer programmer, we create, we deliver our expertise whole heartedly with only perfection in mind;: just as we would serve God. Servitude towards my fellow creatures is the most satisfying endeavor I find myself in being; every effort is my prayer to the Lord in the hope that it will ease my doubtful mind.
Being an artist I become more and more aware of how my thinking mind keeps imposing itself into my consciousness with ideas such as how others would admire my ability, or how someday it will be sold at some glamorous auction in Hong Kong and be bought by a tycoon who know shit about art. When this happens I am off the mark, i make errors and what was once a potential winner can become a mess of confused thoughts and feeling trying to express itself while engaged in mental masturbation's. Lately I am beginning to catch myself doing it more easily enough to do some twenty over sketches that would normally toke me forever or never happen as they are tedious some of them. I find sketching without any particular concern for what gives makes the creative process much more fluid and joyful. Just like the Sushi Chef must know his knives so must i understand what charcoal pencil can do when it wants to express itself.