Samadhi Yoga House
1397 Fall River Road B2T1E5 Halifax, NS, Canada

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Jean Klein on Meditation

A CONVERSATION ON ART Inquirer: For some time now I’ve been waiting to ask you both what you think art really is. Is it an amorphous collection of human express...ion or can we say more precisely what it is? Philosopher: Ultimately all objects are pointers to truth and beauty but there are objects which, par excellence, bring us back to truth and beauty. These are works of art. Inquirer: Does all that we generally call art have this power? Philosopher: Art which strikes the senses and bring us beyond them to a timeless state could be called sacred art. Decorative or experimental art leaves us in the senses and in this sense can be called secular. Those great ‘sacred’ works which have the symbolic power to eject us into the impersonal realm are quite rare. Inquirer: Let us talk about these works of art. What do you mean by saying they strike the senses and take us beyond them? Artist: Is it not that aesthetic joy I sometimes feel when I am so taken by a work of art that it is no longer present as an object? There is only a feeling of wonder, delight and expansiveness where I forget space and time and am no longer in my senses, as you say. Philosopher: Exactly. In aesthetic joy we come back to ourselves, close to our primal being. The delight of great works of art is that they have the power to point us to what we are, to that nakedness and playfulness of simply being, free from thought and self- consciousness. Artist: Yes! When reading certain poems or listening to Beethoven ‘s Quartets or when standing before certain sculptures by Henry Moore I am no longer in the everyday world but in a feeling of oneness and tranquility. It is a feeling of being free from boundaries, from the routine of daily life and what I habitually call ‘ myself’. It is akin to those moments of wonderment I vaguely remember as a child. Inquirer: Do you remain in this feeling or do you come back to the object? Artist: I go back to the details to see what it is that delights me. The coming back is spontaneous, it is the desire to make the work my own. I explore the composition, recreate it point by point until there is nothing else to observe and then again I let myself be taken by joy without the presence of the object. Philosopher: Yes. One returns involuntarily to explore a work because the senses are not yet completely integrated into the whole, the feeling of oneness, and are full of desire to be so. When we explore the details of a work point by point, the global feeling remains as the background and each detail is spontaneously referred to it. Attention thus remains expanded and in it the senses lose their objectivity and unfold. This time, however, they are integrated consciously in our awareness, so there is no immediate desire to come back to the details, the object part. That would be a reduction of the feeling of oneness. It is the marriage in gratitude of admiration and appreciation. Jean Klein: Who Am I? The Sacred Quest, pp. 121-122

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Today's Kirtan, In Praise of the Goddess, to be held at Samadhi Yoga House, has been postponed due to storm conditions. It will be offered on Saturday, April 11th, more details to follow. Om Shanti

Good Morning ! Due to the weather forecast today, the Kirtan at 3pm has been cancelled.Good Morning ! Due to the weather forecast today, the Kirtan at 3pm has been cancelled.

Kirtan - March 7

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