He describes every song as having its own physical space and enjoys being able to explore that space. Much of the enjoyment Soten gets from making music comes from its disconnection with the thinking mind and the embodied presence that accompanies the player or listener. Soten Lynch, one of the ordained at Great Vow, has practiced music on and off for most of his life, but once he came into residency almost seven years ago, its relation to his spiritual life became apparent. What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. Single-Pointed and Open: The Heart/Mind of an Artist It is an offering, a recognition and an extension of our one Heart – dancing the shape of existence. Or what mind does not allow us to see beauty, to see art everywhere?Īrt is a practice, one of both introspection and investigation, a process of divine play. Maybe it is a better question to ask: what is not art, someone chimes in. The universe aware of itself, further engaging the creative force – to connect, to understand herself, to express love for all beings.Īrt is the natural expression of everyone and everything. In this world of form – to stay malleable requires some degree of effort.Īs we work we ponder the question, “what is art?” out loud and an interesting poetic conversation emerges.Īrt is the natural process of expressing true nature. Unbinds in water – releasing comfortable holds Reconstituting clay, a block – hard-formed uncompromising We are meeting on Monday morning for our first ceramics class in the old casting room at Great Vow.īreathing life into this forgotten school room, Shinei’s open presence and optimism has brought the 10 of us, to awaken early on our only day off and traipse down to this dusty forgotten basement space now sprinkled with bright eyes and curious hearts, hammering desiccated clay – filling buckets of water, to reconstitute. This is true of the painter, the musician, the dancer, the actor, the teacher, the scientist, the business man, the farmer – it is true of us all, whatever our work, that we are artists so long as we are alive to the concreteness of a moment and do not use it to some other purpose. An artist creates out of the materials of the moment, never again to be duplicated. Every person is a special kind of artist and every activity is a special kind of art.
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