I am passing near the jungles Leaving dust behind The big eye is looking
The men and women of all times Grow out of the timeless bulb Shining yellow light
I am traveling to another place I do not know it yet But this one here, I also do not know
All I know is: It is me In all the different colors Appearing many, being one.
I have been interviewed twice for an online magazine, called: Vega Magic Magazine. It is a magazine about inspiring life. They also call it: Digital Magazine for Creative Minds. It is created in Spain and translated to other languages. The first interview was in a video form, the second in a written form. They sent me questions and I wrote my answers. For the video one you can just go to YouTube and search for Giora Carmi. You will find it easily (with other interviews). For the written one you have to go to the magazine: https://www.vegamagicmagazine.com and look inside of it for the interview.
The lines, Connected, Do they help to move Or do they hinder? The dots, white and yellow, Over brown, grey and ocher, Are they smooth Or are they rough like Stones or broken bones? The beauty, is it real, Or is it a dream that we have, As this person runs through the fields With the last sun of the day?
Driven by anger
That is also fear
And imprisoned
By the ghostly image
Of his father
The little boy
Salutes his heroes
With his hands
That have no palms.
There is a new free online magazine, Created in Spain, about vegetarianism and conscious living. They are making the first issue. I like the idea and am posting here some text from them, which includes a link to the website, in case you are interested. They also have a book club and other interesting ideas. The text is about a short video competition that they are holding now. Here is their text:
Awards Love & Light for Animals. 1rst. Edition. In a common goal, eradicating cruelty on earth, everyone can do their bit. Our campaign is a grain of sand, which we hope supports this desire common to almost the vast majority of humans. Cruelty is not only unnecessary but also avoidable. Not only among humans themselves but for the beings with whom we share the earth. Everyone can adapt it to their belief, religion or simply free spirit. In this First Edition, bravely supported by the UVE, we dedicate it to the Sanctuaries that are doing great work, often anonymous and with few or no resources, except unconditional love. Watch full article in http://www.vegamagicmagazine.com https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzOdyOlu9VtQ0CBMChUE8-LiiaFBO2JMf_ShDk0/?igshid=Y2piMGV1cjlyaW4w
The houses on the hills
Played with one another
In the sun
The leafless tree
Created drama
With the sky
The stones made a lake
With their tears
To get themselves reflected in it
And the little cloud
Taught them all how
To drift away and disappear.
In every moment, like when there is an attack of pain that is hard to suffer Ask myself: Where is the “I”? And these days I already see, every time I look, many of my “I”’s in many levels.
It is even possible to choose a direction and look for all the levels of I in that direction. This adds interest.
So now that I see many levels, I can ask: From which level of I do I want to act now? Which level do I want to be for this moment? Which level do I want to choose an action from?
Then this is what I do. And the next question is: What action do I want to choose?
And the deeper I go I find that I am more satisfied already and I do not want to do anything really, because I have everything. I am good. I am done.
And the more outward I go, the more I feel that action is required right now, to fix what is not satisfying yet.
So, instead of fixing the un-fixable I go deeper and find that there is nothing to fix. This is what I do when the pain attacks.
Now comes a Zen question: If there is nothing to fix, and everything is good already what shall I do anyway?
This is an infinite question. and I think the answer may be: to play to be curious to be loving to express love to help to make art to express the truth for everybody and for nobody.
This is the thing. This is why it is so difficult to answer a Zen question. Because you can answer on or from many levels.
This is what they call Skillful Means. To know what level to answer from. (They say so , usually, to explain how come they contradict themselves frequently.)
And what is the better level? To answer from the same level that the question came from? From one level up? Two?
There is no good answer. Maybe to strengthen what is already possible for the one who asks at the moment of asking?
And does not everybody have the same connection as I do to all the levels of I?
Actually, the thing to do is to surrender to intuition.
This is the most surprising and the most beautiful.
Pain has slowed me down quite a bit. But I continue to paint and write every day. It is my best way to connect with the deeper parts of me, and I do not want to miss any opportunity to do so. But instead of putting the results in the blog, I decided to make a book. The last few entries to the blog, with poems that accompany the paintings, are from the collection that started to gather.
At some point I thought that I may have enough for a book, and when I counted, I saw that I had many more than I needed.
I found a painting + poem that seemed like a beginning, and added the 41 next consecutive ones, plus another poem without a painting, and made them into the first book in this series. I wanted to show how you change when you do this kind of process. And the changes are, as you already know from reading this blog, both psychological and spiritual.
The principle is very simple. It is like meditation. You bring yourself, by painting that relies only on your individual sense of beauty, to a higher vibration, or in normal language, you bring yourself to feel better. This better feeling is more aligned with your true self. Gradually you elevate your usual vibration. Then, naturally, anything that is in any of the levels of your being and is of a lower vibrations, starts to float up to the surface of your life, to be released. Its only way to go is through your awareness of it. The awareness is given through the art and the writing, and doing this, you let go of at least some of the weight of this issue that does not fit in your system any more. Also naturally, the less burden you carry, the more open you become to more refined energies, and in this way you go wider and higher in your getting to know who you really are.
The name of the book is PAINTINGS THAT READ MY MIND & POEMS THAT READ MY PAINTINGS.
The book is on Amazon. They show a little of the inside, too little to my mind, and the cover. I am going to ask them to add more pages from the inside. You have seen a few examples here, as I said.
By the time I finished designing the book, editing it and preparing for its printing, I added to my pile many more paintings and poems. I am estimating now that there are some 200 more. So it is easy now to make a second book and make it into a series.
As you have seen in this blog, I believe in evolving through a deeper and deeper connection with our original energy, and you can call it deep joy, deep interest, deep playfulness. You can also call it creativity. It does not require suffering. But suffering comes in the process, when old stuff comes up to be released. When it appears in your being for the time that it needs to be seen with love, a mirror image of the same vibration shows up in your reality. And yes, in these times it may seem like suffering. or it may cause suffering (My pain is such an appearance). But since the method is to be aware of it through the art and the writing, you end up doing something that makes you feel better.
Here is for your feeling better, in any way that you choose!
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