#teachings

What did the earth teach the trees?

How to speak to the sky.

-- Pablo Neruda

The lower realms are loud. They reward impulse. They feed ego. They feel good for a moment and empty right after. Real spiritual work pulls you out of that gravity, not by rejecting the physical world but by refusing to be ruled by it’s most primitive urges. If you can’t pull yourself out of the lower realms, they will shape your life for you, if you can, they become fuel instead of a prison.

That’s the difference between living unconsciously and actually evolving.

I made this print by using an old archaic photographic tecnique called cyanotype (or sun/blue print) for the phylosophical and mystical poem by Szilárd Borbély, the The Sequence of Three Secrets (A Három Titok Szekvenciája), which is a part of his series called Hasidic Sequences, where he reflects on Hasidic teachings and beliefs in literary form.

You can purchase this original and only one, signed copy through my Etsy if you like it.

Here's my english translation of the poem, below there is the hungarian original.

Taub Eizik from Kalev, a pupil of the Seer of Lublin said that there are three types of secrets in the world. One is is like this Self-Consciousness, which

that everyone carries within himself because of their previous lives. And have no idea what it is. And don't understand why hide it from others, because it is

hidden from itself too until he dies again. The second secret, is like a light hiding in the mind, nesting in the depths of the skull

until it knows the essence of speech: in the letters of writing the faint glimmer of the primordial light that has come to us from the beginning of creation

that gleams in the depths of life. When the Self begins to read a book written in human language, Finally, the third secret is that of the

one who says: I. While he sorts the stones at the beginning of the path waiting for you, already prepared the unturned stones by the entrance gate

Joan Halifax

From UNFINISHED VOW (book in progress) Look at what is actually breaking. A warming planet treated as a resource, not as a body we belong to. Prisons that hold people the state has declared finished. Wars and genocides conducted in the confidence that the people on the other side are a different order of being. A politics organized around the conviction that our well-being can be secured at someone else’s expense. These are not separate emergencies. They are the same error appearing in different sizes: the belief that we are fundamentally separate, and that separation permits us to use for our own purposes one another and the earth.