From thinking to awareness
by Edinburgh artist Mike Heseltine.
The red in the painting is my thinking state… full of anxiety, fear, suffering etc. It is also the world of form, hence the figures are defined within the red (I am my thoughts). The pattern above is taken from a tomb. Here there is no form or thinking. It is simply awareness. Perhaps the present moment? I like the repetition which reminds me of a mantra that takes me away from thought. There is also no colour, making the top half of the picture the same as the figure. That moment of transition when the figure (me) lets go of the thoughts and becomes empty or ‘nothingness’ (Buddhist translation of 'nothingness' being empty of separation). So thoughts and form is the lower section, with the figure moving into awareness above.
When I enter a cathedral, I like to play a game with myself. I watch to see if the architecture or the spirituality of the place dominates my feelings. I have recently realised that what I have been doing is moving my sense of being from an identity based in thought, to an awareness of thought. This simple shift brings me into the present moment.
The joy was never about the cathedral, but about moving from thinking to awareness.
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