Collisions

 

Collisions

"Consciousness actively directed,
seeking significance and meaning
in a confused and chaotic
inner world."

What meaning is my look seeking?
That bothers it
To look for me
Anyway!

Gnawing at me to look
And revealing by looking
My “Self”

Look careful now
That “Self” is not the look
Or consciousness
It is “Mind”

Revealing the meaning
Found here through the act
Of looking

So, try and grasp “Mind”
As a soap bubble or God
And it will dodge your Act and
Object

Leaving you to collide
With the meaning “Mind” puts
into everything you bring

The collision is the Act
That lights you up
To conscious life
And this meaning thing!

Note:

The Poem "Collisions", is based on a passage from the "Commentaries on Silo's Message" , page 2, that describes "The Inner Look" or "Inner Seeing". The author Silo, wrote these illuminating interpretations of key topics that can give a deeper understanding of the three parts of his work: Silo’s Message which includes The Book (The Inner Look), the Experience (Ceremonies), and the Path.

The Image was created digitally on an iPhone in the style and colors of Piet Mondrian's nonrepresentational art.  Mondrian's art was intimately related to his spiritual and philosophical studies, he believed that art reflected the underlying spirituality of nature. He simplified his paintings down to the most basic elements in order to reveal the essence of the mystical energy that governed nature and the universe.