[MD] Some abiding beliefs -Part 3

[Platt Holden]

SA --
 
>      [Platt[ 
> > It's difficult to stop that little talking guy in
> > your head. How do you shut him up? 
> 
>      I relax.  I still think, but take notice of
> what's happening between the thoughts, and if I relax
> enough, even while I'm walking, running, etc... my
> thoughts will be of what I'm experiencing.  My
> thoughts will be the bird singing.  These events will
> replace my thoughts.  I can still have my thoughts
> about these experiences, but that kind of thinking
> that tries to draw the event is first of all artwork. 
> I may try to draw from the event the best possible art
> code that is able to pull from the event the event
> itself or at least the most excellenct effort to do
> so, which can never be fully mimiced by a human being,
> but that's what makes poetry, music, and paintings so
> wonderful.  The depth of the event is not in the leaf
> of the tree, and the whole event is not intellectually
> documented.  The event is leaf, feeling, inspiration,
> that passing autumn wind, and by the way a human being
> perceiving this.  This whole event is not one of
> these, but all of these and more.  It cannot be fully
> defined.  Yet, art can be intellectual, as well as,
> free the mind to go beyond the thoughts, to bring a
> sense of experience that is for lack of any better way
> to put it at this time - dynamic.  (By the way
> running, backpacking, or any high effort exercise such
> as canoeing, etc... does pull ones experience from
> being totally in ones own mind, too), 

I get the same quiet mind by painting.I

>      [Platt]
> > Are you in some sort of trance?
> 
>      Maybe, when all distinctions go away, and I'm
> just noticing everything in a way that is acceptable
> and beautiful, I'm not rejecting anything, but this
> place must be quiet, peaceful, and calm in order for
> me to not want to reject it.  So, I am living
> wondering in some wierd way as I sit in the woods, is
> this heartbeat I feel also the earth thumping in my
> chest.  Take away this earth, and my heart goes too.

When I'm into painting, it's like a trance. This earth goes on 
unknowingly.

>      [Platt]
> > This yes/no split I refer to is the first expression
> > of a child.
> 
>      oh...  If I look at it this way, then wouldn't
> that first split be eat/not eat, or maybe
> poop/not-poop.  Anyways... I'm not really going to
> argue this point, I just don't know.
 
I should have said first "intellectual expression."

Platt