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“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

German born Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, does not need much introduction anymore. He is considered a contemporary enlightened being.

In 1977, at the age of 29 he had an inner transformation. He woke up in the middle of that night, suffering from feelings of depression so intense that it was “almost unbearable”. He says, “I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I’ that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void. I didn’t know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or “beingness,” just observing and watching.”

Tolle recalls going out for a walk in London the next morning, and finding that “everything was miraculous, deeply peaceful. Even the traffic.” He says he began to feel a sense of underlying peace in any situation.

Eckhart Tolle on Modern Art

“Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions. The reason is that the people who create those things cannot – even for a moment – free themselves from their mind. So they are never in touch with that place within where true creativity and beauty arises. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.”

How to Free Yourself From the Mind

Simply drop your mind, create from a place of no-mind state. Meditate daily to achieve this and wholeheartedly commit yourself to the teachings and their practice of an enlightened being or master until the goal is reached. This is the only way to go beyond the mind. Then you will truly experience your true nature that is ananda or bliss and feel a sense of underlying peace in any situation.

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Re/Sources:
Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now, pg. 98

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle

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