The Story Point of View and The Energy Point of View
There is some discrepancy between the right side and the left side of the picture. The left is loose and hardly organized. It looks like something that is falling apart. The right is better organized, but it is losing some of its order by the pressure and movement that come from the left.
The right is filled with interesting things that try hard to hold on to their shapes. The left looks as if it used to have shapes too, but with the movement, no good form is left in it.
What does it mean?
From the point of view of the story of life, this painting may depict a traumatic and frightening event.
From energy point of view it is just the process of change. In the end of it, maybe there will appear new forms that will be better adjusted for swift movement? And it is also possible that after this movement the forms will disappear altogether and there will only be a peaceful sea of energy, in which some things appear and disappear.
The forms are the story.
The sea is the ground of all.
So what do they think about the wind?
From the story point of view it is what brings a disaster.
From energy point of view it is how freedom manifests.
I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I became involved with the Chan Meditation Center and studied meditation and Buddhist knowledge with the late Master Sheng-yen from Taiwan. For twelve years I was in a process of deepening my meditation. I had many more experiences and insights and my life changed. After having illustrated more than 40 children’s books and writing two of them, I left this career too and went to New York University to study art therapy.
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