Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Come along for the ride!
"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind of companion."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I like or, perhaps more accurately, resonate with this drawing. I haven’t with the last two, which is not to say that I am criticizing in any way that last two. It merely means that within this drawing—as with others I have commented on—something within in me spills over into it. It invites me participate in its aesthetic and meaning directions, its sensibility, if you will. In this way, it is a “reflection of [my own] face.” But, what is it reflecting? For one, it reflects my understanding of relationship as inseparable from self and self as inseparable and in fact dependent on all phenomena for its existence. I exist as self but am only real as relationship. And, I only exist because everything else exists, as it is. Ah, what freedom! What joy in the connection! The drawing also, as color and form, remind me of the necessary connection but distinction between the fundamental interconnectedness of all existence and the individual experience riding on and through time in separate spaces that are spaced through language. As I, the riding cat, glance back, I create the past; a past that is always pointing to my future and which defines my present as karmic formation. And if I look just a bit beneath the surface, I will find—as the drawing shows—that the past is tethered to what I am riding, my egoic embodied vehicle. I love my turquoise-pussed vehicle and you could see that my full immersion in the process of life, as it is, causes me – if you will—to experience my ride through life as play—and I do! Because I am the rider and the vehicle and the ride. This is my yoga. I align myself with compassion and understanding and this is why I am happy. Notice my vehicle in his Downward Dog asana (pose). Get ready, get set, stretch. Stretch—intendere—which means “intention.” Karma is intention stretching itself toward purification, toward the light of Rigpa (Pure Awareness), which is never separate from this life we live as humans being. Notice the aura around the figures. Do you know why? Because this rider, she’s got a ticket to ride! Gate gate paragate parasmgate bodhi svaha.
ReplyDelete"Interconnectedness" is the true word of this drawing. It was so interesting, how I could NOT separate the figures, even -or especially- the lantern-face that looks rather critical at the other two: distant yet connected. And, as you point out, none of those aspects of our inner or outer relationship self can exist without the other. So, why even pretend that we are independent?!:)
ReplyDeleteThe beauty of this interconnectedness is that the more positive we are, the more positive our surrounding will be(come). It just takes some humor while we wait for that to happen :)