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THE TERRITORIAL ORIENTATION, portrait of the year, The artist and the…
THE TERRITORIAL ORIENTATION
There's a three-legged coyote who lives up the hill from me. All the garbage cans in the neighborhood belong to him. It's his territory.
Every now and then some four-legged intruder tries to take over. They can't do it. On his home turf, even a peg-leg critter is invincible.
A territory provides sustenance. Runners know what a territory is. So do rock climbers and kayakers and yogis. Artists and entrepreneurs know what a territory is.
A territory sustains us without any external input. A
territory is a closed feedback loop.
Our role is to put in effort and love; the territory absorbs this and gives it back to us in the form of well-being.
A territory can only be claimed alone. You can team with a partner, you can work out with a friend, but you only need yourself to soak up your territory's juice.
A territory can only be claimed by work. When Arnold Schwarzenegger hits the gym, he's on his own turf. But what made it his own are the hours and years of sweat he put in to claim it
A territory returns exactly what you put in. Territories are fair. Every erg of energy you put in goes infallibly into your account.
portrait of the year
Eternity is in love with the creations of time, he was referring to those planes of pure potential, which are timeless, placeless, spaceless, but which long to bring their visions into being here, in this timebound, space-defined world
The artist is the servant of that intention, those angels, that Muse.
The enemy of the artist is the small-time Ego, which begets Resistance, which is the dragon that guards the gold.
They know they are not the
source of the creations they bring into being.
They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesse s they serve
The artist and the territory
When the artist acts hierarchically, she short-circuits the Muse
The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it.
This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
She aligns herself with the mysterious forces that power the universe and that seek, through her, to bring forth new life. By doing her work for its own sake, she sets herself at the service of these forces.
the fruits of our labour
When Krishna instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of our labor, he was counseling the warrior to act territorially, not hierarchically.
We must do our work for its own
sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
To acknowledge that reality, to efface all ego, to let the work come through us and give it back freely to its source, that, in my opinion, is as true to reality as it gets.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TERRITORY AND HIERARCHY
The sustenance they get comes from the act itself, not from the impression it makes on others. I have a friend who's nuts for clothes
the supreme virtue
Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonida s to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed.