"They are blind, they only see images _ Están ciegos solo ven imágenes" _ Mahmud Shabistari Persia S.XIV.
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Una sombra de otra sombra



Plotinus (/plɒˈtaɪnəs/; Greek: Πλωτῖνος; c. 204/5 – 270)


No se dejó retratar "para no dar lugar a una sombra de otra sombra"

En la explicación del "nous" Plotino parte de la semejanza entre el Sol y la Luz. El Uno sería como el Sol y la Luz como el nous. La función del nous como luz es la de que el Uno pueda verse a sí mismo, pero como es imagen del Uno, es la puerta por la que nosotros podemos ver al Uno. Plotino afirma que el nous es observable simplemente aplicando nuestras mentes en dirección opuesta a nuestros sentidos.

A Breakdown (and) After the Mental Hospital




Anne Charlotte Robertson. 1991. United States of America. vo English. 26’
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hfacollections2/category/super-8/ 
This is Reel 23 of my Super 8mm opus Five Year Diary. It covers the period September 1 -December 13, 1982. Within are documented a paranoid manic nervous breakdown, a description of a mental hospitalisation, and the subsequent recovery period. Sound is of wild tape of the breakdown, and a hidden tape-recorded psychiatric session; the second soundtrack is narration from 1991. Synopsis: Introduction; paranoia about root vegetables; esoteric sign language; searching for hidden significances; crush on Tom Baker (“Doctor Who” from BBC Television); my cats Amy and Buddy; vegetarian cooking; the compost heap; my mother and her house; driving into Boston; unemployment; television hyper-vigilance; hiding inside; exorcism with tea and mirror and lamps; too much wine; my friend the painter Susan Brown; the movie The Turning Point; experiences in a mental hospital; psychiatric session recording; autumn street and garden scenes; the mental day-hospital; domestic still-lives; bingeing; self Gestalt-therapy; school; groceries; winter; my garden; a series of self-portraits.” (ACR)

Ayaruna, Espíritu de las Plantas Amazónicas





Eloi Ysàs Trias. 2007. Peru. vo Spanish, Quechua. s English. 68’

The paintings and stories of the painter Don Pablo Amaringo's Amazonian and religious realities subtly guide you through this film, in which you share space and time with a series of teachers who are experts on the language of the Amazon's plants, seen by many as “the world's pharmacy”. This documentary is called “Ayaruna”, which means “deceased” in Quechuan, and acts as a bridge between different realities, setting up a profound philosophical dialogue that deals with the language of the spirit and covers subjects like the mystical experience and medicine in our time.

http://www.eloiysas.es/

Los cuadros y relatos de las visiones y realidades de la cosmogonía amazónica y religiosa del pintor Don Pablo Amaringo te guían sutilmente en esta obra donde compartes el espacio y el tiempo con distintos maestros conocedores del lenguaje de las plantas de la Amazonía, para muchos la farmacia del mundo. Este documental llamado Ayaruna, difunto en la lengua quechua, hace de puente entre las distintas realidades, estableciendo un profundo diálogo filosófico sobre el lenguaje del espíritu, abordando temas como el de la experiencia mística y la medicina en nuestros tiempos. Este video es la segunda parte de la serie “Sumirunas, sabios del cielo en la Tierra”; serie que se inicia con “Sierra y Selva, arte chamánico en Perú”.  

EntreMundos





Abu Ali. A compilation.

with excerpts from: Fes Inner City, Wahab, Istishara, Last Night Dhikr, Al Barzaj, Love is your Destinity.

www.al-barzaj.org

Al trabajar a lo largo de años en piezas de pequeña y mediana duración uno se da cuenta que, de alguna manera y superando toda previsión, funcionan como piezas de un mosaico inesperado, piezas que se intercalan dando lugar a sentidos y recorridos que se completan. A pesar de que en su origen inesperado se encuentra el azar, su combinatoria se guía por las lineas de tensión y fractura de cada uno de estos videos. Buscando las puertas que los comunican entre sí...la idea del video como ensoñación y contemplación ...
Con fragmentos de:  Fez Ciudad Interior, Wahab, Istishara, Anoche dhikr, Al Barzaj, Satsanga, con la posibilidad final de El Amor es tu Destino .....

Manifestations of Beauty

 

Najm ud-din Kubra.  Fawa'ih al-jamal wa-fawatih al-Jalal. Persia XII -XIII

 

Close your eyes and observe what you see. If you see nothing, it is a shortcoming that only comes from you.

In truth, you see, but the shadows of your body are too close to your eyes, so you do not perceive. If you want to find out what it could be when you close your eyes, soften your body.

(...)

Contemplative concentration is the result of withdrawal; it is its secret. Its opposite is the dispersion. There is not better grace than withdrawal and no worse punishment than dispersion.

(...)

What allows to open the vision is the disappearance of the veil that covers it. (...) When you sleep, you get rid of the weight of the body and your senses are closed to the ocean of existence. Other senses open towards the hidden world, like the eye, ear, nose, mouth, hand, foot, and whole other body. There you see, hear and even taste food of hidden world -sometimes when you awake you have still the taste of the food that was eaten in it -, there you speak, walk, and reach far away regions, because the distance is not masked.

The dream's body is a more perfect one. In that body it is frequently given the ability to fly, walk on water or into the fire without burning. Please do not think these are empty words, it is a reality; because dream is the brother of death.


…...


Cierra tus ojos y observa lo que ves. Si no ves nada, es una carencia que solo procede de ti.

En verdad, ves, pero las sombras de tu cuerpo están demasiado cerca de tu mirada, por eso no lo percibes. Si lo deseas descubrir al cerrar los ojos, suaviza tu cuerpo.

(…)


La concentración contemplativa es el fruto del recogimiento; es su secreto. Su opuesto es la dispersión. No hay gracia más grande que el recogimiento, ni castigo peor que la dispersión.

(…)

Lo que permite la visión es la apertura de la mirada gracias a la desaparición del velo que la recubre. (…) Cuando duermes, te liberas del peso del cuerpo y los sentidos se cierran a los océanos de la existencia. Otros sentidos se abren hacia el mundo oculto, como el ojo, el oído, el olfato, la boca, la mano, el pie, y todo otro cuerpo. Se ve, se oye y se toman bocado de comida del mundo oculto - algunas veces se sale del sueño y aún se nota el gusto del alimento que se ha comido en él-, se habla, se anda, se recorren y alcanzan regiones distantes, ya que la distancia no está enmascarada.

Es un cuerpo más perfecto que éste. En ese cuerpo se da con frecuencia la habilidad de volar, caminar sobre el agua o entrar en el fuego sin quemarse. No vayas a pensar que son palabras vacías, es un realidad; el sueño es el hermano de la muerte.

Be as you Are



Excerpts from:





. John Grimes, Ramana Maharshi _ The Crown Jewel of Advaita, India 2010
. Ramana Maharshi, Be As You Are




There is not difference between dream and the waking state except that the dream is short and the waking long. Both are the result of the mind. Because the waking state is long, we imagine that it is our real state.

(...)

In the waking state, you are there, aware, the sun is the light of the world, the world with all this multiplicity is perceived as real, and the world exists external to oneself. The gifts of waking state is that it creates an awareness in each individuality that there is a reality (even though what this reality actually is, is incorrectly understood). In the dreaming state, you are there, aware, the mind is the light of all you perceive, you create the experienced universe, and the world you perceive is internal to yoursef. The gifts of the dreaming stat reveal that the world may quite possibly and logically neither be real nor external to oneself and that is just maybe the case that nothing really happens. The dream state also points to the possibility that the waking state may be but a dream.

(...)

There is only one state, that of Consciousness or Awareness or Existence. The three states of waking, dream, and sleep cannot be real. They simple come and go. The Real will always exists. The “I” or existence that alone persists in all the three states is real. The other ones are not real and so it is not possible to say they have such and such a degree of reality. We may roughly put it like this. Existence or Consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness plus waking, we call waking. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness plus sleep, we call sleep. Consciousness is the screen on which the pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it. Because by long habit we have regarding these three states as real (…) The screen is always there nothing sticks to the screen, it remains a screen. Similarly, you remain your own Self in all the three states of existence.

(...)

Reality must be always real. It is not with forms and names. That which underlies these is the reality. It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound. It underlies unrealities, itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is. It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions ‘existence, non-existence, etc.

(...)

Q: It is easy to accept tentatively that the world is not ultimately real, but it is hard to have the conviction that it is really unreal.
A: Even so is your dream world real while you are dreaming. So long as the dream lasts everything you see and feel in it is real.
Q: Is then the world no better than a dream?
A: What is wrong with the sense of reality you have while you are dreaming? You may be dreaming of something quite impossible, for instance, of having a happy chat with a dead person.
Just for a moment, you may doubt in the dream, saying to yourself, ‘Was he not dead?’, but somehow your mind reconciles itself to the dream-vision, and the person is as good as alive for the purposes of the dream. In other words, the dream as a dream does not permit you to doubt its reality. It is the same in the waking state, for you are unable to doubt the reality of the world which you see while you are awake. How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal? That is the significance of the comparison made between the world of the waking state and the dream world. Both are creations of the mind and, so long as the mind is engrossed in either, it finds itself unable to
deny their reality. It cannot deny the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming and it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it is awake. If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind completely from the world and turn it within and abide there, that is, if you keep awake always to the Self which is the substratum of all experiences, you will find the world of which you are now aware is just as unreal as the world in which you lived in your dream.

......


You seem to be an exponent of ajata doctrine of advaita vedanta.
A: I do not teach only the ajata doctrine. I approve of all schools. The same truth has to be expressed in different ways to suit the capacity of the hearer. The ajata doctrine says, ‘Nothing exists except the one reality. There is no birth or death, no projection or drawing in, no seeker, no bondage, no liberation. The one unity alone exists.’ To such as find it difficult to grasp this truth and who ask, ‘How can we ignore this solid world we see all around us?’, the dream experience is pointed out and they are told, ‘All that you see depends on the seer. Apart from the seer, there is no seen.’ This is called the drishti-srishti vada or the argument that one first creates out of one’s mind and then sees what one’s mind itself has created. Some people cannot grasp even this and they continue to argue in the following terms:
‘The dream experience is so short, while the world always exists. The dream experience was limited to me. But theworld is felt and seen not only by me, but by so many others. We cannot call such a world non-existent.’ When people argue in this way they can be given a srishti-drishti theory, for example, ‘God first created such and such a thing, out of such and such an element, and then something else was created, and so on.’ That alone will satisfy this class. Their minds are otherwise not satisfied and they ask themselves, ‘How can all geography, all maps, all sciences, stars, planets and the rules governing or relating to them and all knowledge be totally untrue?’ To such it is best to say, ‘Yes, God created all this and so you see it.’

(...)

Q: Sri Bhagavan often says that maya [illusion] and reality are the same. How can that be?

A: Sankara was criticised for his views on maya without being understood. He said that
(1) Brahman is real,
(2) the universe is unreal, and
(3) The universe is Brahman.
He did not stop at the second, because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived
as the Self, and unreal if perceived apart from the Self. Hence maya and reality are one and the same.
Q: So the world is not really illusory?
A: At the level of the spiritual seeker you have got to say that the world is an illusion. There is no other way. When a man forgets that he is Brahman, who is real, permanent and omnipresent, and deludes himself into thinking that he is a body in the universe which is filled with bodies that are transitory, and labours under that delusion, you have got to remind him that the world is unreal and a delusion. Why? Because his vision which has forgotten its own Self is dwelling in the external, material universe. It will not turn inwards into introspection unless you impress on him that
all this external, material universe is unreal. When once he realises his own Self he will know that there is nothing other than his own Self and he will come to look upon the whole universe as Brahman.



Duino Elegies


english _ spanish


R.M.Rilke

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THE EIGHTH ELEGY

The creature gazes into openness with all
its eyes. But our eyes are
as if they were reversed, and surround it,
everywhere, like barriers against its free passage.
We know what is outside us from the animal’s
face alone: since we already turn
the young child round and make it look
backwards at what is settled, not that openness
that is so deep in the animal’s vision. Free from death.
We alone see that: the free creature
has its progress always behind it,
and God before it, and when it moves, it moves
in eternity, as streams do.
We never have pure space in front of us,
not for a single day, such as flowers open
endlessly into. Always there is world,
and never the Nowhere without the Not: the pure,
unwatched-over, that one breathes and
endlessly knows, without craving. As a child
loses itself sometimes, one with the stillness, and
is jolted back. Or someone dies and is it.
Since near to death one no longer sees death,
and stares ahead, perhaps with the large gaze of the creature.
Lovers are close to it, in wonder, if
the other were not always there closing off the view.....
As if through an oversight it opens out
behind the other......But there is no
way past it, and it turns to world again.

Always turned towards creation, we see
only a mirroring of freedom
dimmed by us. Or that an animal
mutely, calmly is looking through and through us.
This is what fate means: to be opposite,
and to be that and nothing else, opposite, forever.
If there was consciousness like ours
in the sure creature, that moves towards us
on a different track – it would drag us
round in its wake. But its own being
is boundless, unfathomable, and without a view
of its condition, pure as its outward gaze.
And where we see future it sees everything,
and itself in everything, and is healed for ever.
And yet in the warm waking creature
is the care and burden of a great sadness.
Since it too always has within it what often
overwhelms us – a memory,
as if what one is pursuing now was once
nearer, truer, and joined to us
with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance,
there it was breath. Compared to that first home
the second one seems ambiguous and uncertain.

O bliss of little creatures
that stay in the womb that carried them forever:
O joy of the midge that can still leap within,
even when it is wed: since womb is all.
And see the half-assurance of the bird,
almost aware of both from its inception,
as if it were the soul of an Etruscan,
born of a dead man in a space
with his reclining figure as the lid.
And how dismayed anything is that has to fly,
and leave the womb. As if it were
terrified of itself, zig-zagging through the air, as a crack
runs through a cup. As the track
of a bat rends the porcelain of evening.
And we: onlookers, always, everywhere,
always looking into, never out of, everything.
It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses.
We arrange it again, and collapse ourselves.
Who has turned us round like this, so that,
whatever we do, we always have the aspect
of one who leaves? Just as they
will turn, stop, linger, for one last time,
on the last hill, that shows them all their valley - ,
so we live, and are always taking leave.



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texto completo PDF castellano

Rainer María Rilke

Octava elegía de Duino


Dedicada a Rudolf Kassner


 
Con todos los ojos ve la criatura
lo abierto. 


Pero nuestros ojos están
como al revés, y completamente en torno suyo,
la cercan como trampas, alrededor de su libre salida.


Sólo sabemos lo que hay afuera por la cara del animal,
pues ya desde el principio volteamos al niño
y lo forzamos a que vea de espaldas la creación,
no lo abierto, que en la mirada animal es tan profundo.



Libre de la muerte. Sólo nosotros la vemos;
el libre animal tiene su final siempre detrás
y delante de sí a Dios,y cuando va, va hacia la eternidad,
del mismo modo en que van las fuentes.
Nosotros jamás tenemos, ni un día,
el puro espacio adelante, hacia el cual
las flores se abren sin fin. 

Siempre es mundo y
nunca ningún sitio sin no: lo puro,
invigilado, lo que se respira e interminablemente conoce y no
anhela. 


De niño se pierde uno tranquilamente en ella
y nos despiertan a sacudidas. O alguien muere y lo es ya.
Porque cerca de la muerte uno ya no ve a la muerte,
y mira fijamente hacia afuera, quizás con la gran mirada
animal. Los amantes -si no estuviera el otro,
que obstruye la vista- están cerca de ello y se asombran.

Como por equivocación, está abierto para ellos detrás
del otro... Pero por sobre él
nadie avanza, y vuelve a hacérsele mundo.
Siempre vueltos hacia la creación, vemos
sólo en ella el reflejo de lo libre,
que oscurecemos. O que un animal,
mudo, alce la vista, atravesándonos
en calma. Esto se llama destino.
Estar en frente y nada más que eso,
y siempre en frente.


Si hubiera conciencia como la nuestra
en el seguro animal, que en opuesta
dirección se acerca: nos giraría
con su paso. Pero su ser es para él
infinito, inasible, no tiene vista hacia su condición; es
puro, tal como su mirada abierta hacia delante. 

Y donde nosotros vemos el futuro, ahí él ve el todo, 
y a sí mismo en el todo, y salvado para siempre.
Y sin embargo hay en el vigilante, cálido animal
el peso y la inquietud de una gran melancolía.

Pues él también siempre lleva consigo lo que a nosotros
con frecuencia nos abruma, el recuerdo,
como si el sitio hacia donde corremos como impelidos,
alguna vez hubiera estado más cerca, hubiese sido más
leal, su contacto infinitamente tierno. Aquí todo
es distancia, allá todo era aliento. Después
de su primer hogar el segundo es para él híbrido
y mudable. Oh, dicha de la criatura pequeña,
que permanece siempre en el vientre que la parió.


Oh, suerte del mosquito, que aun adentro retoza,
incluso en sus bodas: pues el vientre es todo.
Y mira, la media seguridad del pájaro que, desde
su origen, casi conoce ambas cosas, como si fuera un alma salida de un muerto, a quien un espacio acogió, 

pero con la figura yacente como tapa.
Y qué perplejo está quien debe volar, y proviene
de un vientre. Como espantado de sí mismo, zigzaguea
en el aire, como cuando una grieta se abre en una taza.
Así cruza el rastro del murciélago la porcelana del anochecer.
Y nosotros: siempre espectadores, en todas partes,
¡vueltos hacia el todo, nunca hacia afuera! El todo
nos colma. Lo ordenamos. Se desintegra. Lo volvemos
a ordenar y nos desintegramos nosotros mismos.


¿Quién nos ha invrtido así, que hagamos lo que hagamos,
mantenemos la actitud de alguien que se va? 


Como quien,
desde la última colina, que le muestra una vez más todo
su valle, se vuelve y se detiene, permanece un momento,
así vivimos nosotros, y sin cesar jamás de despedirnos.






Pitx'i





Xavi Hurtado. 37 min. Colombia

"Pit'xi" means companion (referring to "Ksxa'w" that means so much spirit as dream), is a companion guide when you dream, a messenger between worlds. In the Nasa indigenous culture (Colombia), the "The Wälas" (shamans) carried out some traditional practices with the mental image (produced by the dream (Ksxa'w) and vision (I´khwe´sx)) that create a sacred territory more visible than the eyes are seeing. Around this moves everything, time, culture and political resistance. In the Nasa culture imagination has got the power.
Here more works by Xavi Hurtado gentiliapri.com/artists/xavi_hurtado/


Pi´txi es el acompañante (se refiere al ksxa´w (este significa sueño y espiritu)), intermediario o emisario entre mundos. En la cultura Nasa, en Colombia, diversas prácticas ancestrales con la imagen (especialmente el sueño (Kxsa´w) y la visión (I´khwe´sx)) crean una geografía sagrada del territorio alrededor de la cual se mueve el tiempo, todas las narrativas de la cultura y la realidad tangible.