30
May
2008
The Painter made a decition to finish two paintings in a week. The themes and details of those paintings had been in his mind already. But he kept postponing his painting one day his relaxed conition, his mind asked himself why laziness sometimes came and strangled his hands and legs when he was about to start painting. Why he chosed doing reading or laying in bed, day dreaming.
He understood that there was happiness within and beyond the painting process. He knows that the happiness got enough power to attract him to start painting. He understood that. But why for almost a week laziness had kept him from starting painting.
Then he was aware that laziness was not so bad as many people thought. People tend to appreciate deligence and despise laziness. But The Painter did not thing so. It is true that without deligence, laziness became the master of mind. And if that happens the evolution of human beings would ceas and they would vanish. But laziness is as important as deligence. If there had been no laziness, people would have tend to work too hard, so that they would have ruined their own bodies and minds.
The Painter accepted that laziness is natural, since every thing in this universe tend to be stand still, unless some force makes them move.
What he did was just prepare a canvas while accepting that laziness as natural. But at that moment he needed to break it before it became too much. By one step, preparing a canvas, his laziness did break up, and the road to painting activities was opened. That one step was so important that after that one step his painting activitiy was flowing naturally, and his heart started to taste the sweetness of happiness.
Posted: Leadership, Meditation, Painting, spirituality
28
May
2008
When The Painter stopped painting for two days and set back to study the painting basic tachniques, he found sentences about how important for a painter to have a self critic. The sentences said: “It is an old axiom in painting that it requires two people to paint a picture: a painter to do the painting and another (large) person to knock him senseless before he ruins it. There is more truth than humor in this. In practice, an artist is both of these people, he must be his own ruthless critic.”
For a few minutes he agreed with that statement which was stated by his “teacher”. But his relaxed mind was aware that those sentences contains negative sense. The Painter is aware of the effect of words onto his mind, his cells, and his life.
The Painter agreed of the importance of critic and self critic to produce good paintings. However, instead of a large and ruthless person who is ready to knock him senseless, his critic is a wise mother who allows him to walk alone and dare to make mistakes. Only by daring to make mistakes, to stumble, to fall down, human beings are able to walk. Only by daring to make mistakes The Painter is able to produce better and more creative paintings.
Posted: Leadership, Painting, creativity, spirituality
27
May
2008
The Painter is reviewing the direction of his life by asking questions to his heart: “ What do you mean by “great”? The root of that question is his intention to become a great artist. During his quiet mind the question emerged in his mind, and asked him for a bold answer.
And he needs to have a deffinite answer, since it is a very important thing for the direction of his life. He knows that he wants to be a great painter instead of an ordinary one. But he wants to be free from any body’s judgement. He wants to have his own criteria for his greatness.
Certainly, a great painter is not an artist who stands above other painters or human beings. A great painter respects people regardless of their professions, colours, or languages. A great painter is the one who masters the painting technique as well as respects people and nature. Respect needs undestanding. And understanding needs study.
Studying. The Painter love it, since it is the source of happiness.
Posted: Leadership, Painting, spirituality
25
May
2008
The Painter, How to Start a Day
The Painter understands that his way of starting the day is important for his success. Yet he needs to improve his awareness to implement the understanding.
Getting up at six oclock in the morning and straight starting to work seemed to be good. Straight to his painting without cleaning his body seemed to be efficient. Directly toward his work without praying and meditation seemed to be time saving.
When his mind was still and his body relaxed, his awareness suggested that those are not the case. It was important to start the day with proper steps, since a few first early morning steps determine the brightness of his heart, and so the productivity of his day.
Praying, meditation, exercise, cleaning his body are the foundation of his daily success, so that he needs to practice them as early and regularly as possible, prior to his painting business.
Posted: Leadership, Meditation, spirituality
