What is meditation? The aim of all meditation is to keep us in the present, because it is the place where we are connecting with divine energy. The present does not mean only that I’m in front of my computer and reading a website article, it means also I’m not anywhere else mentally. When we are thinking about our past: we remember. When we are thinking about our future, we shall be in an imaginary universe which nobody else can access. It is very personal, and exclusively ours.
Meditation is our means to go out from our lonely planet and to be together. It is a vertical motion. The aim is to be presence in our present. This present can be very easily identified, as it contains no fear because that is in our future, no sadness because that is in our past. There is only happiness, because the present is The Divine place.
But, how can we get there? There are many good ways for it. Art Yoga is one of them. Art Yoga means we will reach this divine place through art/fine art. All the art forms are capable of keeping us in the present, each and every artist is there when doing art. They wish to be constantly in this happy moment as art is providing, thus art becomes an art addiction. I can speak about fine art, which is my special field.
In the Hindu aesthetics art is moving from visual art to music or from music to visual art. All others are in between. The music is very unique, our brain cannot forget it, never ever. The brain will remember even if it got affected by mental disease or decline. Brain damage does not kill emotions, just closes the door for it. Contact with emotions is eliminated. The only way to tap into this locked off emotions is music or art.
In the other hand, fine art also contact to the “picture library” our brain. People with brain damage, lose contact to this library. That’s why they cannot recognize objects, words, situations, persons. When we draw, we have to recognize what we are drawing. In this moment we will use our “library” with or without a live model. Every millisecond a new decision must be made about what is important in this picture and what is secondary or marginal. We would like to draw something in an understandable way, so must decide how the others can recognize that object. Last not least, we would like to reproduce a part of the divine beauty.
It is a very complicated task for the brain, and together with the intricate muscle movements needed the artist will be able to keep himself in the presence.
The Art Yoga is a meditative way of fine arts, a type of meditation.
