meditation
Agitation
The origin of thought and
the inception of the idea……where does it come from? What lies behind the
intuitive process of creating art, music, literature and architecture?
The physical and the innate
are all that we know. The physical is the external, the innate the internal. Physical
is of the natural world as we know it and the innate is of the mind.
The idea, and thought itself
resides only in the innate. There is no physicality to thought. Yet, thought is
what gives us physicality. If not for thought, there is no physical reality.
There is no universe, no alphabet or language, no mathematics, science or rules
of physics.
Without the physical, the
innate cannot exist. There is no vessel to sustain thought; there are no senses
to witness and record the physical.
Two interlocked realms of
existence and reality, and we occupy both.
The physical accesses the
innate through meditation. That process is automatic or natural, as well as deliberate
and intentional. The requirement
of thought and idea only occurs when complex physical action requires “output” from the
innate. In order to tell a story, compose a musical arrangement; design a
building, the physical taps into the innate strata of the mind and its organic,
undefined infinite pool of possibilities.
Complex problems and goals require deeper and deeper exploration. Physical
experience (memories, learned relationships, awareness of what is known)
decrease as the depth of meditation increases. This is the realm of creation,
of what doesn’t exist, and all things are possible. This limitless expanse,
void of the physical, is the truly innate that contains the sparks of (origin)ality.
That originality, the birth of the unique, occurs when the innate informs the physical.
Pure meditation, void of all that is external, all that has been
learned, is the true locus, the point of origin, of the idea.
The innate accesses and ultimately
transforms the physical through agitation. A musical note transferred through a piano key (a
product of some degree of meditation), is introduced into what is physical, and agitates the physical nature of what
exists. The innate thought, has been realized. The mere observation and introduction of that note is an agitation (disruption) of reality, altering its course. The physical state will never be the same once that
note has been played and heard. It existed in the physical world, even if for
the briefest instant, caused a change and (agitated) the physical state. This
is a single musical note heard by one. A musical composition changes the
physical state a thousand fold upon a single performance of the piece. The
physical act of performing, witnessing and recording of that composition
becomes an event that occurs and is grounded in the physical reality.
Consider then
the value and the impact of the original and the unique which has been created through meditation, forever
transforming the physical reality of our existence. Original Art, literature and music that has been derived of the mind, with no external predjuices, influence or learned behavior, are true manifestations of the innate, and their introduction into the physical reality agitates (transforms, disrupts, excites) the very fabric of that reality.
What if......Moby Dick had never been written?
What if.....the Hagia Sophia had never been created?
What if.....the composition of rythms, notes, relationships and contrasts of Ludwig van Bethoven's meditation of the 5th symphony had never agitated our physical reality? A loss....that we would not be aware of.
Embrace the original, the unique, and the innate.
RBP
3/5/15
