Intention, Meditation & Art

I have been thinking about art a lot lately (in a preface to diving in). we am still in holiday/ visiting mode (my daughter is here until Tuesday) as well as boxes have been eventually unpacking themselves in a realization which this is home. we am still in a getting settled mode as well as a artists creation up excuses mode. But there we have it. we have this terrible linear bend to me (can we be linear as well as bent during a same time? we smell a koan). we similar to to emanate order. Renos done, now boxes need unpacking as well as an additional covering of uncluttering is taking place. we find myself asking "I packed this because?" The heart breathes a small whine during this clarity of "doing a next thing which needs to be done."
But all a while we have been thinking about accurate voice as well as how to try it in a studio. In my post of Dec 28th we talked about hearing a call to accurate voice as well as saying this as a new year's many critical work. My past methods of approaching accurate self in my art usually involved onslaught as well as disappointment as well as a lot of self judgement. It is my intention to try an additional hook (even though we am not a sailor) we will lean into a winds of more open exploration as well as play this year as well as see where which takes me. Intention, we hear discuss it is an critical word.
A while back we picked up a second hand copy of "True perception, The Path of Dharma Art" by Chogyam Trungpa. we started erratic by a pages as well as longed for to share a quote which seemed helpful as we proceed a new year as well as new mind day to day of approaching my art. Here's what he has to say:
"When we speak about art, we have been articulate about a form of a little kind which we could work on. So it is similar to a practice of meditation. But what is which form, as well as how does imagining go along with ! it?.... Absolutely nobody can become a great craftsman or a great artist without relating with a practice of meditation.... I'm articulate about a sitting practice of meditation.... But what do we meant by a sitting practice of meditation? For instance, Beethoven, El Greco, or my many favorite person in music, Mozart -- we think they all sat. They actually sat in a clarity which their minds became vacant prior to they did what they were doing. Otherwise they couldn't presumably do it. Just entrance out of a marketplace as well as plopping down during a dining-room table as well as essay a play -- that's impossible. Some kind of mind-less-ness in a Buddhist clarity has to take place. From which basic ground, a clarity of being, openness, or isness begins to develop." Chogyam Trungpa
So there it is kids, Beethoven didn't come using in from a marketplace as well as noise himself down as well as write a light sonata. So we won't be erratic in straight from Costco or a washing room as well as awaiting to make contact with which energy which taps into both a own deepest selves as well as a collective voice of that's out there for us to draw on. It takes a sacred, contemplative, nurturing approach, an proceed which listens to a own crazy stirrings. So we entice we to stick on me. Find your space, a ratty old sweater we adore as well as just sink into which Mozart space.