Self-Expression

 

 

Expressions of the self are for many very important.

 To express the self as an individual or in a group is part of one's existence or the frustration that is always creeping in.

It is natural that one should give the self to it, expressing once love for a special person or group in words and gestures.

 How to express one's deepest feelings and trying to express more and more deeply with all its immensity, becomes the question.  

Then frustrations come in, when the expression do not correspond to the strong feelings one is trying to express. The artist has strong feelings and intuition and can expresses that feeling with its material or on canvas.

When expressions become stale and all-important, because it is pleasurable, satisfying or profitable, then there is a cleavage between expression and feeling.

 People are getting caught in the profitable passion of expression and creating a division between the good and the truly pleasurable. 

And if one asks about the expression, one is not asking about artistry, but only about profit.

Artistry is the living thing and to have that complete feeling in it self is that living which is without conflict.

Passion and lust are entirely different; lust is sustained by thought, driven by thought and grows until it explodes to power never finding fulfillment. 

Passion is not the product of thought and it is not driven by any motives to fulfill.

If it is born out of love, it is not lust and creates the profound sense of beauty with no demand and therefore no struggle.

Passion is the freedom from the "ego", which is the center of all fulfillments and the pain.

Passion or creative merriment is the austerity of self-abnegation in which the "self" is not and therefore making com-passion the essence of life.

Thinking brings in all the problems of having and holding, for passion to ceases in the small routine.  

Passion is only in the present and is that passion of learning, which is the total abandonment of the "self”, that has unlimited creative trust and its time conduction influence.