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one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
celebrating the art of paradox
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delving into the wisdom of absurdity in whimsical way
this blog is about paradox.
through my questions, i hope to encounter the paradox within belief, that place where there is not one answer but many contradictory ones.
each question, each drawing is an invitation to join me in allowing what appears absurd to take us to a wisdom beyond linear thinking.
as long as we question, we are free. free to see, to feel and to express who we are. and to connect collaboratively with one another.
About Me
- anne artist
- i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
you can find my cartoons in this online magazine!
http://thoughtsonsale.com/
here is the link to my photography blog about simplicity:
on a clear day she could see forever
one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
4 comments:
by the time the meek inherit the earth, there will be nothing left to tax
then will the powerful choose to tax "nothing" ? if part of perceiving oneself as powerful includes taxing those considered to be meek, will that paradigm continue? even if taxing nothing results in nothing? or if there is nothing left, will the meek rebuild the earth in their own ways? and if so, if they succeed, will they become powerful and tax whomever has become the new meek?
Interesting questions for which there are of course, no answers. However, for the sake of lunacy, here is mine.
We are born to gain enlightenment and merge back into Spirit from whence we originated. The material world is an alluring, intoxicating, satisfying plane of awareness that offers just enough suffering to make us want to leave it behind. Bit by bit, through gazillions of incarnations, we extricate our "self" from attachment to the material plane. The most powerful of power seekers have not had enough suffering to think that there is anything more real than power, and yes, they will "tax" (in its various forms) until they suffer insanity or loneliness or something else as equally painful. The meekest of the meek have realized that true substance has nothing to do with things that can be taxed. Some people, including my "self", choose to believe that Spirit (including the meek) will eventually be the only reality, and the earth will be rebuilt accordingly, with no need for the struggle of enlightenment or balance, because we will be Spirit. In the meantime, it is one helluva balancing act to see the beauty and "power" in the meek, and to make decisions that will actually help this paradigm come into fruition; and as an aside, hopefully to remove us from the karmic cycles a little earlier. I get so f*ucking tired of all these power struggles and discrepancies in our world, and I sure do not want to cause any more suffering, which unfortunately, I always do.
and is there not a wisdom of sorts in knowing that although we do not want to cause suffering, we will do it anyway?
and for me, it is because the one thing i might know is that there are no answers to my questions....it is because of that...that i feel enabled to ask the questions in the first place. for the sake of lunacy, perhaps.
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