Daily Quote, Friday February 27, 2009
Good morning!
Here's todays quote with my short reflection just above it.
So effort is a resistance to what is. To have awareness we must no longer resist. It goes very deep I think. Even to have an image in the mind of something is resistance to what is and already an effort to change it. The image is "always already" the effort. It's not the case that we have an image and that organises the effort.
Robert
Awareness is non-effort.
Does not effort mean a struggle to change what is into what it is not, or what it should be, or what it should become? We are constantly escaping from what is, to transform or modify it. . . .
Only when there is no awareness of exactly what is, then effort to transform takes place. So, effort is non-awareness. Awareness reveals the significance of what is, and the complete acceptance of the significance brings freedom. So, awareness is non-effort; awareness is the perception of what is without distortion. Distortion exists whenever there is effort.
Collected Works, Vol. IV - 117
I wonder why society always makes an effort to change things. When we use images, we automatically feel a need to change it; maybe for the better or not, but we never just accept it for what it is. This quote really makes you think about how you 'automatically' react to things in your daily life. And how much effort you are really putting into it!
ReplyDeleteI was just reading a story about film made about art collectors and I was amazed at hows today's JK quote was reveal in the story below....
ReplyDeleteFrom www.herbanddorothy.com
"6 months into the film's production, I hit a wall. I was failing to capture Herb and Dorothy's thinking as collectors. Whenever I asked them why they liked certain artists or artworks, they answered only, "because we liked them," or "because they are beautiful." How could I make a film about art collectors who cannot articulate their approach to that art? It became a major challenge.
Then Lucio Pozzi, the very first artist I interviewed, opened my eyes. His response to my dilemma was, "That's why the Vogels are very special. Why should you explain art? What's the need to verbalize art? Herb and Dorothy only look, look and look. That's their way of communicating with art and artists." This breakthrough in my thinking about them allowed one of the deep themes of the project to emerge. I started paying attention to how they look at art, instead of how they talk about it. Herb in particular doesn't talk much, but I realized that his eyes do the talking, when looking at art - with great intensity"