Helene Weiss "Spring Bloom, Floral Study"
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27 February 2010
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Mind Matters, the truth... sort of
Warning: Reading may cause spontaneous enlightenment or nausea & diarrhea. Other side effects include the will to learn & evolve or intensley fearing your own mind for the rest of your life. Oh, and God says hi.
"There is the real you and then there is everything else. There is no higher self or lower self, there is only you... everything else is perception"
Andrew Miles
Of Mind and Matter
The netherworld inspired lingo of higher this, lower that and other perceived intellectual verbiage used to explain the mind, amounts to little more than a hokey new age language that unnecessarily creates confusion, fear and divisiveness.
I know you think it’s cool, very now to act like you don’t know your mind, you know pretend you’re not friends and all that, but come on the whole higher self, lower self, the mind is not one of us and must be stopped mentality is counterproductive. Not to mention it goes against the whole “love thy neighbor as yourself” thing.
I mean really, dissing your own mind because it doesn’t think like you? So what if your mind made you believe last season’s Dolce was the latest fashion must have. Maybe your mind thought last season’s gear was all you could afford, ever thought of that? Anyway in the end you both agreed you looked great. Listen, bottom line, fear leads to hate and that's just whack! So I ask, for both your sakes, consider this radical thought… your mind is really you.
Although I will say this… through no fault of its own, your mind really has become a big fat liar!
Me, Myself, I… cant we just get along?
Treating your mind like an outcast in your own head, immature name calling like “ego mind”, “false mind”, etc., is mean & truthfully your minds behavior has less to do with an evil plot against you than it does with evolution and human biology.
You see your mind like your body is the product of thousands of years of evolution, ingrained deep within it, a bi-product if you will, are the many horrific experiences born of the kind of hazards one might expect when living with dinosaurs… well, that and our own lack of understanding, severely limits our access and use of the mind.
In truth the mind really is quite genius, but thanks to our pre-school level understanding and holier than thou attitude towards it, the mind is stuck in BC, consequently it functions, well, on a prehistoric level, that is, a learned behavior, one that helped us survive in that big scary, land before time. The mind is guilty of nothing more than trying to protect us (humans) from the big bad dinosaurs and the terrible possibility of being eaten alive. Sweet, right :o)
Jeffrey Dahmer notwithstanding the threat of being eaten (alive, anyway) generally doesn’t happen in our “evolved” new world. However, and here’s the not so sweet part…
Cut to our world today, You: a 21st century marvel of evolution… and your mind, well not so much. Thanks to us its evolution remains confined to its dawn of time experiences, like a broadway actor reprising an award winning performance over and over, the mind continually relives its own glory days... sans paparazzi of course, which is why you may not know this story.
See back in the day the mind was “The man”, the go to guy, the celebrity of the B.C. world, its presence and function not unlike, say a Google or a Bing (no, not the old guy who sang with the dinosaurs, the internet Bing), it (the mind) dominated… searching & finding answers, saving lives, delivering relevant thought with speed and precision, all with a kick butt take no prisoners type attitude. I mean the mind was ahead of its time… think Tiger Woods on the golf course… or the bedroom.
Don’t worry be happy
Not to worry, ever resourceful, the mind despite our treating it like an unwanted house guest does try to keep up with our 21st century needs, only now it commutes to visit & dish out fight or flight thoughts & directives, just like it did for our loin clothed, earth is flat ancestors.
Need more proof? The minds success abounds, just look around, our jungle experiences remain the building blocks of our conditioning… men - hunter gathers, spreader of seed and women – nurturers, homesteaders, makers of babies.
The mind served a vital function, critical to our very survival as a species and because of its commitment and hard work those roles are still with us today. Sure a lot has changed but consider; women are still nurturers & men remain firmly committed to spreading seed.
If loving you is wrong
In today’s world the minds ability to handle the socially penetrating, thoroughly mind numbing questions (based on perception) of 21st century guru’s and the rest of us are more often than not met with answers that to it (the mind) are plausible solutions.
The mind is simply trying to do a good job for us, namely to ensure our continued survival by keeping us out of harm’s way and safe from those experiences it believes may hurt us. Its answers, right or wrong are based entirely on our own ability to think and say what we mean.
Remember the mind just wants us to be safe and happy; despite its methodology, it continues to serve in the only way it knows how. If loving you is wrong, the mind doesn’t want to be right.
Grandma is that you?
Think of it this way: your minds sole purpose is to love & protect you. Don’t be a hater!
I like to think of my mind as a loving grandmother who just has my best interests at heart. If grandma (my mind) jumps in the middle of a heated debate between me, myself and I, I gently stand my ground, saying things like, “I know you love & want to protect me, but when you don’t let me think for myself, out of fear that I might fail or get hurt, I don’t grow as person, I don’t get to experience any level of failure or success. I love & appreciate how much you care about me, but what you see as protecting me is actually hurting me. We both then cry & hug. Awe! With grandma now silent (and our relationship still very much intact), I turn back to my selves and say, “Sorry, where were we?
Ask and you shall receive
The truth according to someone (& I’m not saying who), “higher mind”, “ego mind”, blah, blah, blah is a matter best understood when communicated in the native tongue of the humanoid... You know, people speak.
The benefits of this approach… an easy translation ensuring maximum absorption of many popular universal messages such as Spiritual Healing (similar to the late Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, but with a lot less moaning & no the someone is not Marvin) and classics like, Being me, Being you, as well as the chart topper that started it all, Learn to love yourself, your whole self & not just the parts you like or the parts you’re told to like.
Learning to speak
Intellectual thinking is an oxymoron, think intuitively… with your heart. Once you get your footing throw in some analytics, slowly get the feel of using both intuition & thinking.
It is critical that we understand our whole selves and stop taking the easy way out… i.e. making a part of us we don’t understand the bad guy.
The era of hate & blame is rapidly coming to an end. The time to honor our creator by loving the magnificence of our whole selves is upon us. Good, bad… right, wrong is all perception…there is but one truth and that is we are a beautiful, complicated mass of interdependent parts that when placed together equal one whole… you are the sum total of those parts.
As for any missteps along the way… may these words from my dear old grandma (my mind) help you as much as it did me: “Don’t be mad sweetie, you know it’s really not my fault”.
In closing:
Tough love
Having run out of races, religions and things to hate, one could guess it was only a matter of time before we turned our hate inward, becoming victims to our own delusions. We are capable of so much more than we will ever comprehend, wouldn’t it serve us to learn, to understand our mind vs. blaming and demonizing it?
Well at least think about it.
"There is the real you and then there is everything else. There is no higher self or lower self, there is only you... everything else is perception"
Andrew Miles
Of Mind and Matter
The netherworld inspired lingo of higher this, lower that and other perceived intellectual verbiage used to explain the mind, amounts to little more than a hokey new age language that unnecessarily creates confusion, fear and divisiveness.
I know you think it’s cool, very now to act like you don’t know your mind, you know pretend you’re not friends and all that, but come on the whole higher self, lower self, the mind is not one of us and must be stopped mentality is counterproductive. Not to mention it goes against the whole “love thy neighbor as yourself” thing.
I mean really, dissing your own mind because it doesn’t think like you? So what if your mind made you believe last season’s Dolce was the latest fashion must have. Maybe your mind thought last season’s gear was all you could afford, ever thought of that? Anyway in the end you both agreed you looked great. Listen, bottom line, fear leads to hate and that's just whack! So I ask, for both your sakes, consider this radical thought… your mind is really you.
Although I will say this… through no fault of its own, your mind really has become a big fat liar!
Me, Myself, I… cant we just get along?
Treating your mind like an outcast in your own head, immature name calling like “ego mind”, “false mind”, etc., is mean & truthfully your minds behavior has less to do with an evil plot against you than it does with evolution and human biology.
You see your mind like your body is the product of thousands of years of evolution, ingrained deep within it, a bi-product if you will, are the many horrific experiences born of the kind of hazards one might expect when living with dinosaurs… well, that and our own lack of understanding, severely limits our access and use of the mind.
In truth the mind really is quite genius, but thanks to our pre-school level understanding and holier than thou attitude towards it, the mind is stuck in BC, consequently it functions, well, on a prehistoric level, that is, a learned behavior, one that helped us survive in that big scary, land before time. The mind is guilty of nothing more than trying to protect us (humans) from the big bad dinosaurs and the terrible possibility of being eaten alive. Sweet, right :o)
Jeffrey Dahmer notwithstanding the threat of being eaten (alive, anyway) generally doesn’t happen in our “evolved” new world. However, and here’s the not so sweet part…
Cut to our world today, You: a 21st century marvel of evolution… and your mind, well not so much. Thanks to us its evolution remains confined to its dawn of time experiences, like a broadway actor reprising an award winning performance over and over, the mind continually relives its own glory days... sans paparazzi of course, which is why you may not know this story.
See back in the day the mind was “The man”, the go to guy, the celebrity of the B.C. world, its presence and function not unlike, say a Google or a Bing (no, not the old guy who sang with the dinosaurs, the internet Bing), it (the mind) dominated… searching & finding answers, saving lives, delivering relevant thought with speed and precision, all with a kick butt take no prisoners type attitude. I mean the mind was ahead of its time… think Tiger Woods on the golf course… or the bedroom.
Don’t worry be happy
Not to worry, ever resourceful, the mind despite our treating it like an unwanted house guest does try to keep up with our 21st century needs, only now it commutes to visit & dish out fight or flight thoughts & directives, just like it did for our loin clothed, earth is flat ancestors.
Need more proof? The minds success abounds, just look around, our jungle experiences remain the building blocks of our conditioning… men - hunter gathers, spreader of seed and women – nurturers, homesteaders, makers of babies.
The mind served a vital function, critical to our very survival as a species and because of its commitment and hard work those roles are still with us today. Sure a lot has changed but consider; women are still nurturers & men remain firmly committed to spreading seed.
If loving you is wrong
In today’s world the minds ability to handle the socially penetrating, thoroughly mind numbing questions (based on perception) of 21st century guru’s and the rest of us are more often than not met with answers that to it (the mind) are plausible solutions.
The mind is simply trying to do a good job for us, namely to ensure our continued survival by keeping us out of harm’s way and safe from those experiences it believes may hurt us. Its answers, right or wrong are based entirely on our own ability to think and say what we mean.
Remember the mind just wants us to be safe and happy; despite its methodology, it continues to serve in the only way it knows how. If loving you is wrong, the mind doesn’t want to be right.
Grandma is that you?
Think of it this way: your minds sole purpose is to love & protect you. Don’t be a hater!
I like to think of my mind as a loving grandmother who just has my best interests at heart. If grandma (my mind) jumps in the middle of a heated debate between me, myself and I, I gently stand my ground, saying things like, “I know you love & want to protect me, but when you don’t let me think for myself, out of fear that I might fail or get hurt, I don’t grow as person, I don’t get to experience any level of failure or success. I love & appreciate how much you care about me, but what you see as protecting me is actually hurting me. We both then cry & hug. Awe! With grandma now silent (and our relationship still very much intact), I turn back to my selves and say, “Sorry, where were we?
Ask and you shall receive
The truth according to someone (& I’m not saying who), “higher mind”, “ego mind”, blah, blah, blah is a matter best understood when communicated in the native tongue of the humanoid... You know, people speak.
The benefits of this approach… an easy translation ensuring maximum absorption of many popular universal messages such as Spiritual Healing (similar to the late Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, but with a lot less moaning & no the someone is not Marvin) and classics like, Being me, Being you, as well as the chart topper that started it all, Learn to love yourself, your whole self & not just the parts you like or the parts you’re told to like.
Learning to speak
Intellectual thinking is an oxymoron, think intuitively… with your heart. Once you get your footing throw in some analytics, slowly get the feel of using both intuition & thinking.
It is critical that we understand our whole selves and stop taking the easy way out… i.e. making a part of us we don’t understand the bad guy.
The era of hate & blame is rapidly coming to an end. The time to honor our creator by loving the magnificence of our whole selves is upon us. Good, bad… right, wrong is all perception…there is but one truth and that is we are a beautiful, complicated mass of interdependent parts that when placed together equal one whole… you are the sum total of those parts.
As for any missteps along the way… may these words from my dear old grandma (my mind) help you as much as it did me: “Don’t be mad sweetie, you know it’s really not my fault”.
In closing:
Tough love
Having run out of races, religions and things to hate, one could guess it was only a matter of time before we turned our hate inward, becoming victims to our own delusions. We are capable of so much more than we will ever comprehend, wouldn’t it serve us to learn, to understand our mind vs. blaming and demonizing it?
Well at least think about it.
13 February 2010
"True" Happiness
No search can lead you to it. No thing can bring it to you. No person can give it to you. It cannot be shared.
There is no secret. To know true happiness look within, but know this too...
Feeling happiness is conditional.
What is felt is not of you, therefore its existence will always be temporary, subject to change based on condition (its source) which originates outside of you.
Knowing happiness is unconditional.
What is known is of you, therefore it is "true". Its existence simply Is and will always be, its source originates from within you.
To know "True Happiness" is to understand the what, how and why of its origin (its source)
There is no secret. To know true happiness look within, but know this too...
Feeling happiness is conditional.
What is felt is not of you, therefore its existence will always be temporary, subject to change based on condition (its source) which originates outside of you.
Knowing happiness is unconditional.
What is known is of you, therefore it is "true". Its existence simply Is and will always be, its source originates from within you.
To know "True Happiness" is to understand the what, how and why of its origin (its source)
12 February 2010
Art Brief: Helene Weiss, latest works sold
Green Fields II
2007
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, Weiss (lower left)
40 by 40 inches, unframed
Anabella
2009
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, Weiss ’09 (lower left)
36 by 36 inches, unframed
2009
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, Weiss ’09 (lower left)
36 by 36 inches, unframed
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