Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art"There is an old Sanskrit word, lîla, which means play. Richer than our word, it means divine play, the play of creation, destruction, and re-creation, the folding and unfolding of the cosmos. Lîla, free and deep, is both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and the play of God. It also means love. Lîla may be the simplest thing there is--spontaneous, childish, disarming. But as we grow and experience the complexities of life, it may also be the most difficult and hard-won achievement imaginable, and its coming to fruition is a kind of homecoming to our true selves."--Introduction, page 1. |
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... creation as a continuous feedback , a kind of parallel track of consciousness that facilitates the action . Ob- structive judgment runs , as it were , perpendicular to the line of action , interposing itself before creation ( writer's ...
... creation as a continuous feedback , a kind of parallel track of consciousness that facilitates the action . Ob- structive judgment runs , as it were , perpendicular to the line of action , interposing itself before creation ( writer's ...
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... creation , is part of our innate makeup , that craving to reach beyond ourselves . Why do we do art ? There may be multiple and serious motivations , such as opening people's eyes to injustice or saving the world ; but if the activity ...
... creation , is part of our innate makeup , that craving to reach beyond ourselves . Why do we do art ? There may be multiple and serious motivations , such as opening people's eyes to injustice or saving the world ; but if the activity ...
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... creation , we cannot know it , but we know it is there and we love it ; and that love drives us to realize it . The work in progress can be experienced much as an- other person with whom we interact , whom we get to know . We begin to ...
... creation , we cannot know it , but we know it is there and we love it ; and that love drives us to realize it . The work in progress can be experienced much as an- other person with whom we interact , whom we get to know . We begin to ...
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A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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