Dangerous Art Forms

True budo has no enemies...
True budo is the manifestation of love. Love never kills. Love nourishes. Love brings all things to fruition. Love is the guardian angel of all beings. If there is no love, nothing can be accomplished. Aikido is the embodiment of love.

Morehei Ueshiba
Secret Teachings of AIKIDO

Here you see a composite image of a work of art. This is a simple piece of bamboo from a local garden supply store.

First is that the mysterious forces of Nature grew this piece of bamboo this is of itself a work of art. Next is how we humans use this bamboo as a tool in our daily lives.

The large sticks of bamboo can be used to stake out and support plants .. vegetables .. food growing in the garden. The same bamboo can be used to create a Shakuhachi flute.

I burn the finger holes using a general purpose soldering iron. At the same time I have technical skills and I can safely use a soldering iron [a simple but potentially dangerous tool if you do not have the skills to use that tool].

However, this composite image is the stages of creating a bamboo Tai Chi Bang (stick) .. a dangerous art form. The Tai chi stick can be used as a gentle training form or it can be used as a weapon of defense. A bamboo flute can be used to play and create tones / music or the bamboo flute can be used as a weapon of defense.

Art can be both beautiful and dangerous!

I can draw a UFO using color pens onto a piece of photo paper .. and to certain areas of society this drawing or image is a THREAT... One can carry a hand to elbow sized piece of bamboo .. refine it .. sand it down .. oil it and in some cases use this tool as a form of defense!

Dangerous Art Forms
I carefully cut the pieces of bamboo into Tia Chi size exercise sticks. I do this as a form of art. Sometimes one side of the hollow bamboo has an open hollow side .. while the other side is closed. It all depends how you cut the bamboo.

If I have a hole .. this is not such a problem as the energetic balance of the tool transfers the flow of Qi no matter what! I have tested closed bamboo Zen Qi sticks and open bamboo Zen Qi sticks and they all seem to work equally. The hollow inside is the key / Qi!

I carefully sand down the whole bamboo to smooth using medium and then extra fine sand paper. Both ends of the bamboo chi stick have to be balanced and smooth .. like the bones inside the body. The bamboo is then covered with olive oil .. and general care of the bamboo is maintained using olive oil that slowly soaks into the structure of the bamboo over time.

The ultimate danger of bamboo is AWARENESS.

The art of Nature grows and creates bamboo .. the human being uses bamboo as a tool. The Master of Qi uses bamboo stick as a discipline. Shaolin use the bamboo stick as a form of self-defense. The body-mind connects with the synergy of bamboo to balance and heal. All of these are dangerous art forms.

The penetrating use of the mind [awareness] is a threat to mundane society.
The masterful use of the Tai Chi stick is an artistic threat to brute force society.

Artists create art forms to protect the higher mind...
The higher mind creates art forms to protect the ARTISTs ...

The Portal

Primordial Mind

Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley:
"The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for their detail, rich colours and lifelike quality." *#*

Why did man start to draw? They ask .. and I wonder - why do people today assume early cave drawings were made for 'supernatural' reasons? Scientists and anthropologists claim early man would worship gods, worship animals .. draw on cave walls to evoke the spirit of the hunter, to embue themselves with supernatural powers.

Perhaps one day in the future someone will look at my little friend and ask: "Why did she paint that square man?" So, before you get there let me answer you. The square man painted himself, and he did not paint himself to attain supernatural powers .. From the moment he appeared I did not like him .. what was he doing appearing in the middle of my painting.

I (the artist) looked at him and wondered how he got there. I did not like his funny shield, and I did not like his funny arm. I did not know why he had to have a square heart. I did not like his simple face. The little prehistoric soul warrior did not care whether I liked him or not. He was strong, aloof, silent and without opinion. I had to remold the rest of the painting around him.

I have to admit that I would never have achieved the perspective, powerful simplicity and prehistoric presence if I had thought about the form of the little man. That is exactly the point: I did not think. Scientists would argue that you have to think to give structure and form .. well, no you don't. Rational thought mimics structure and form. Thought measures structure and form. There is a much older part of the brain that directly connects with the reality of structure and form (free of thought).

Does the artist paint the picture or does the picture draw the artist? Like a Zen Master, when the artist is one with the line then the line draws itself. When the mind is free of thought the artists is the canvas for the soul. Thought (ego) measures structure and form, a mere shadow of the capacity within the mind to be structure and form.

The little square man bugs me because he cannot be explained. I do not know where he came from. I do not know how he appeared on the canvas. Yet, the painting is a window into that non-rational world - older and far superior to anything we are today. The square man talks to me of another world, a world we emerge from and return to when we leave our square reality. He laughs at us .. you think I am square .. you should see yourself from my perspective ..

The bison, the antelopes, tigers and the horses run wild in the spirit worlds far beyond our comprehension of all that surrounds this 3D world. When you look at our material existence from their perspective we look square ..

Infinite Design

I was playing around with concepts of Infinite design. In this respect is a friendship a work of art? Does an artist have to apply the same laws of existence to life as a whole, as they apply to the canvas? It would seem so. Van Gogh said: "It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. "

Quantum Mechanics is the light of creation teaching the scientists about art... Because if you look at the most ancient civilisations buried under the sands of time, their cornerstone is art. The legends of Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria are about art, and the high level of technological development is indivisible from the understanding of Cosmic design. Quantum science is about Infinite Design. Human beings were born from the womb of Infinite Design, we observe it, we rely on it for our existence and we enter it when the last thread of our lives unravels into its quantum sacred geometric vision.

That is what life is: An artistic vision. Self perpetuation. Expanding and contracting (the twin forces). Perfectly balanced. The great artists were the first people to understand the mystery of Quantum Science. The rest of the world is catching up. Because expressing that as truthfully as you can (as an artist), requires you to be a visionary, a remote viewer, a lover, a warrior, a revolutionary and a living canvas of the divine. If all the peoples of the world were artists, the religions would have to peddle their wares on a planet less evolved, and struggling with its identity - as this one is now... sadly to say.

The living mind should not be entombed in cold stone walls and darkness, buried in a mindless death before the last thread releases the soul to its own brighness. The living mind is the work of art, sculpted by an unseen mystery and guided by an artist... Look around you.

The Greatest Artist

Two friends were sitting having tea together, and looking up at the wondrous snow capped peak of Mount Fuji. It just so happened that they had been talking about the Zen artists of Japan, and the magnificant prints, many of them depicting the most famous mountain in the land. The friend had been looking at some of the works of art hanging on the walls of his young friends home. He wanted to know where he had bought such fine prints, and of the artists. He was astounded to hear that he was, sitting having tea with the living artist, and he exclaimed:

"You surely must be one of the greatest artists of our time!"

Because the prints were magnificent.

The other friend laughed and shook his head. No, he was not the greatest artist! Then he went strangely silent and looked into an intense space. He patiently explained to his friend that his skill was to listen, and the finer he tuned his listening the clearer his vision. It was his skill, to listen so carefully, that he was able to see, hear and understand the infinite design. When he was able to hear the resonance of that mysterious frequency, he was able to mirror it into a form that he could share with this world.

He considered the greatest artist reveals itself in the form of the mountains and the trees, in the windswept skies, in the pine needles and the ocean waves. The two friends were silent. In the distance an eagle called from the mountain high. Clouds drifted. Two women stopped to pick up a cherry blossom from the path. The songs of whales are heard crying in the mountain pines.