Evolve

"Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look – in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river – wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door opens, a new perception is achieved."
Osho

The Mystery of Birth and Death and Birth and Death

Have we not had isolation enough? Recognizing our longing for closeness, our need for nearness, is not weakness but wisdom. --Marilyn Sewell


Celebration of Life for Bill Clifford
It has been an honor and a great pleasure to know you.

There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy they say he wandered very far very far over land and sea a little shy and sad of eye but very wise was he And then one day he passed my way and while we spoke of many things fools and kings This he said to me The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return
The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and love in return.

17 September Friday
2:00-4:00 pm
Reed's Bazaar and Tea House
Ft Edmonton Park

There will be a sign in the parking lot to direct to the side road. Parking is beside the building but it is on the second floor and there are only stairs to get there.

Charity donations can be to the Edmonton Humane Society - Mr Chumbbles.



Thank you.

The One you are looking for,

"Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. You are the traveler and you are the destination. In experiencing the ecstasy of your own being, you have achieved the final goal."
Osho

jumpleapdotheuncomfortableaction in the non action

Volupte 20"x20" original acrylic on canvas $800.
"Your yearning is either genuinely deep or you are settling for something that can't truly fulfill you. As long as you are willing to settle--for a good but not a great man, for a career and nice vacations, for new furniture and fancy restaurants--you will never be willing to suffer the vulnerable depth that is required for your heart to reach open to be taken by love's divine presence." David Deida

What if this means... just taking the action of relaxing the bottom, the action of letting the shoulders and neck be in a receptive state? What if this means opening to the good, good, goodness all around all the time like there is nothing missing? Action like that.

The Seduction of Thought Too Many Thoughts per square inch (2.54cm)

Toomanythoughtpersquareinch(2.54cm) 20"x20" Original Acrylic on Canvas $800.00

"If you recognize that you are chronically absorbed in superficial doings, then have compassion for your woman and yourself. She has suffered untold days or years of your lack of depth and presence, as you have suffered them yourself. Lack of depth is suffering. The masculine error is to believe that this suffering can come to an end through activities and accomplishment. Your woman reminds you that depth--love--is now or never."
David Deida

Monsters in the mind is

MatchingtheSofaOpenAnxietywithConsensualReality 20"x20" Original Acrylic on Canvas


antidote...
"Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature. You are going upstream – that's what misery is."
Osho

Monsters on the blue background cover

Worth Wild -Monsters in Mind Series- 20"x20" Original Acrylic on Canvas



"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Helen Schucman - A Course in Miracles

Monsters and antidotes

Whiny Fat Chick -Self Evident (Monsters in Mind Series 20"x20" original acrylic on canvas)

antidote...
"In any moment, even if you are not being treated like you wish you were, you can do love and give love because you are love. You are consciousness alive as love, dancing as the fullness of this moment. You are already one with the love you seek. By aligning your breath, body, and mind with this truth of love, your life becomes a vehicle through which love can enter the world and your relationship."
David Deida

Because we are all in this together...

Masque of Morose Looping, -Monster in Mind 20"x20" original acrylic on Canvas
This attractive little monster takes hope (the little feathers on the back) and smooshes it with giving the same reasons in the same order the same reasons in the same order the same reasons in the same order the same reasons in the same order.
A La Christine Lafuente. -Melon and flowers 6"x6" oil on hardboard


"Allow desire to be a doorway through which to give your gifts, rather than a cravenness through which to acquire something. Convert the course of sexual want from contentment to boundlessness. Give from your heart so fully you are as gone as love is wide, all edges vaporized in the flame of sexual combustion. Die into the light of love."
David Deida

monsters in mind, ancestral inheritance and grandma's hands

Simply not ever quite good enough... 30"x30"


The nature of Reality.
Every once in a while, when I am not so very entranced with the details of the illusion I see the the blue field where the illusion is manufactured from. There is also the black emptiness of peace that flashes up every once in a while. ..but back to the very interesting monsters.
Here is a big one that sets and starts many of the others.

Yesterday I spent the day... the currency of time, with my Grandma. She is 92. I wandered around her place looking at the dishes, the pots and pans, the knickknacks that she has had for as long as I can remember, quite literally. I get to hold her hand now as we walk. I love that.
I love how she moves her hands.
These had have washed alot of dishes, chopped and diced fruit and vegetables,

kisses

Love and Meditation

Longing-Lesson 1 How to Miss the Whole Show 20"x20" Original Acrylic on Canvas Monster in Mind Series... Embrace the monster...


"My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life."
Osho

Mysterious

MOnstEr In Mind
masqueoftheinfinitely clear reflection in the smoky mirror 20"x20" original acrylic on canvas



All these ways to this...

"Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look – in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river – wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door opens, a new perception is achieved."
Osho

Self actualization is the hottest new trend! I think that is what he said..AND .Art Sacred

'Languid Desire on 300 thread count floral print Egyptian Cotton Sheets' is the succinct title of this piece. 20"x20"original acrylic on canvas

The series is Monsters in Mind -The seduction of thought forms. See how lovely comfortable, seductive she is... just a few moments of wishing for something as if it is separate from myself.. the little swirl of self pity, the soupcon of envy... how very repetitive and comfortably uncomfortable... this feeling...this monster thought in my mind...

This fun little game of consciousness where as the awareness grows we see that we are the creators ....always.

"It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time."
Alfred Stieglitz

Daily Nourishment... Osho

green shoe kimono 24'x18' wideprofile Original Acrylic on Canvas.

is not a part of the monster in mind series... but she is pensive...
"Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. You are the traveler and you are the destination. In experiencing the ecstasy of your own being, you have achieved the final goal."
Osho

The Broad...er View

This image is based on 'Assumption of the Virgin' a painting by Titian.

the oil painting begins...