silence shared in words
presents
Objective Art and Subjective Art
In the West, perhaps Gurdjieff is the only man
who has divided art
into two sections:
the objective art and the subjective art.
Subjective art is from the mind,
and is out of anguish.
Objective art
the Taj Mahal,
the caves of Ellora and Ajanta,
the temples of Khajuraho
has come
from meditative people.
Out of their love,
out of their silence,
they wanted to share;
it is their contribution to the world.
The Western
artist
has lived under a very heavy burden.
It is time
that he should be made aware
that there is something more beyond mind.
First reach to that beyond,
and then you can create stars;
and they will not only be
a great joy to you,
they will also be a great joy for those
who see them.
Just on a full-moon night,
sit by the side of the Taj Mahal
don’t do anything, just look at it
and you will find suddenly
a silence descending on you,
a peace
filling your heart.
The mind
is stopping its constant chattering
An objective piece of art like the Taj Mahal is not just to be seen,
but to be lived
and then you will be
in a certain way connected
with the creators
of that beautiful
architecture.
It was created by Sufi masters.
Its very shape
somehow
creates
within you
a new
blissful space.
But the Western tourist comes with the camera,
takes a few shots from here and there
and runs away to some other place.
He does not know how to appreciate
an objective art.
One has to meditate on it
it may be that
thousands of years have passed
between the creator of that piece and you.
Suddenly that distance disappears;
you become part
of that creative joy,
of that creative dance.
creativity is secondary,
meditation is
basic
and fundamental;
everything should come out of your meditation.
Then it will give you
a beatitude,
your being
a new song,
and it will help others
to experience something of it.
It will depend on their meditativeness.
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