Meditation 4 Print

It's not always sunny outside. It's not always possible to see the horizon. Sometimes a thick fog falls. You can choose to grope, or stop and wait. Waiting requires a lot of trust. Even if we are aware that the fog will not stay there forever, we do not know if it will keep us company for days, weeks or months. A certain restlessness could take over and the bright sunny days could seem far away. But even the fog has its why. In fact, its creation is a combination of temperature and humidity, it's simply a cloud that has decided to touch the ground. It's often trapped downstream, but the sun always shines higher up. And then we must wait and trust. Going deeper inward could be the occasion that the fog has come to bring us. Probably everything could seem gray and dark to us, but the sun will return, perhaps illuminating new paths to take. About Meditation series... The word meditate derives from the Latin "meditari", "mederi" which means generally an intense concentration of the mind on an object of thought, with the aim of understanding its essence. The word meditation derives also from the Latin “meditatio” which is generally considered a practice that is used to achieve mastery in the concentration of a single thought, interrupting the normal chatter of the mind, calming it and making it peaceful. Similar to meditation is contemplation, in which the mind rests in its natural state. It is a practice present in various forms aimed at self-realization. It has been recognized for many centuries as an integral part of the main oriental traditions, in which the practice of receptive meditation is preferred; that is a 'thoughtless awareness', free from the psychic activity of the human being. Now even science is able to prove meditation results and benefits. I had never been interested in meditation until seven years ago, when i faced something almost totally unknown and I was forced to find new tools to metabolize. I felt that nothing would ever be the same, but I had no awareness of the transformation I was experiencing. For some it could be considered a mystical experience, for others simply the discovery, through a new point of view, of realities that are perceptible but not visible to the naked eye, and science (in particular quantum physics) is now able to explain trough modern technologies. At that moment, finding myself unable to explain these "oddities", I had the sensation of going crazy at times. I began a deep research for a solution, which brought me to the knowledge of meditation practices. As I proceeded towards experimenting different techniques, I realized that Nature had the healing power of meditation on me. Nature could spontaneously lead me into meditative states. Certainly wasn't the first time i observed a flower, a sunrise, a sunset or a landscape. But a new awareness was born within me. Nature could give me peace. My breaths had spontaneously gone deep. My mind didn't need to run here and there: the scents I felt, the colors I saw and the sounds I listened to, gave me serene fullness. My link with the Earth and Nature has deep roots coming from my childhood, but it is recently that I have a unified vision in which I perceive human being, Nature, science, spirituality and divine as different manifestations of the same essence. In my artistic research this path translates into putting Nature and Mother Earth first, feeling a strong push towards the need to safeguard it in our contemporaneity. From here it's born the attention in my creations towards the use of mainly organic materials. From a formal point of view, the minimal approach recalls the concept of essence of Nature of the oriental philosophies and in its simplicity, a Nature free from categorizations of time, space and interpretation. The observer is at the same time an active part of creation, he can fill the white with his personal experience of Nature. The power of creation of the divine (in my works it is symbolically white, yellow or gold light), actually resides within each of us, and reveals the inseparable link with everything that surrounds us, as a manifestation of the Divine Nature in everything.