make art not content
if one has given the whole of himself to becoming a Master, he will do what is necessary to become it. And it will be a joy for him. It will be an intense journey. And peaceful the entire way. Hard work and practice are for those who try to become that which they secretly believe that it is difficult for them to become.
Kapil Gupta • A Master's Secret Whispers
You dont need to glorify hard work when its peaceful getting to where you know you want to go. Hard work is for people who don't know where they want to go but reward themselves with a heroic badge.
Here is the crux of the matter: When the mind desires winning, its fear of losing far exceeds the desire for winning. As a result, there is intense anxiety. Which, in turn, sabotages the individual’s performance. And often results in the very thing that the mind feared all along: Losing. Does this mean that this anxiety always results in losing? Of
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This is writers block and everything else similar to the art of feeling stuck
Obvious to you. Amazing to others. Any creator of anything knows this feeling: You experience someone else’s innovative work. It’s beautiful, brilliant, breath-taking. You’re stunned. Their ideas are unexpected and surprising, but perfect. You think, “I never would have thought of that. How do they even come up with that? It’s genius!” Afterwards,
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Everybody`s ideas seem obvious to them
Meditation is Not an action. And the world has been taught to treat it as an action. And it is for this reason that it does not work for the overwhelming majority of practitioners. Meditation is not about Doing something. It is not about Achieving something. It is not about Becoming something. Meditation is about Allowing, rather than doing. It is
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We've been taught meditation is an action. That's very limiting
Climb the greatest mountain. Achieve all the accolades in the world. Become the greatest in your field. Achieve fame. Earn millions. And you will enjoy every bit of the journey, if and only if you understand that none of it means anything. When something has meaning, it becomes work. When something is meaningless, it becomes play.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Play always
Human existence is characterized by a perpetual dissatisfaction, a divine discontent, with who we are now, and what our world looks like now, compared to what it could be. Change is unpredictable; we rarely know how things will turn out in the end. But we still invite it, still seek it out.
Artmaking is, for many, an essential part of enacting these... See more
Artmaking is, for many, an essential part of enacting these... See more
So, what is it that Rick Rubin does? How has he helped artists make their best music for almost half a century across such disparate genres and styles? The secret seems to be rooted in self-discovery. As Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks put it, Rubin “has the ability and the patience to let music be discovered, not manufactured”—or, to use our
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The child who twirls in the rain has no purpose for doing it. The child who runs through the field does not run to get somewhere. The running and the jumping and the playing is not done for meaning or purpose. It is an expression of the elation within. It is not done For joy. It is done Out Of joy.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
This is pure art