Lumea ca o colecţie de lucruri printre care şi oameni. Am căutat un echivalent în limba română la perechea THING (lucru) – THINK (a gândi), din engleză, observată de Alan Watts, şi nu mi-a trebuit mult până să-mi apară aceasta: MINTE – A MINŢI. Mintea gândeşte separând, diferenţiind, iar păcăleala („minciuna”) rezultă din identificarea lumii gândite, abstractizate, cu lumea reală.
Îl mai puteţi asculta (şi vedea, datorită contrastului) pe
Alan Watts vorbind despre noţiunea sanscrită Māyā din a cărei
rădăcină MA provin denumirile „materie”, „mamă” şi „matrice”. Iluzoriul a ceea
ce poate fi măsurat după mintea omenească, limitările multiplelor forme
aparente.
Pictura, în esenţa ei, este, printre altele, arta unei
priviri de ansamblu care nu diferenţiază calitativ formele de fundalul pe care
acestea se profilează.
Things and Thinks - Alan Watts | Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life TV Series
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”Every man thinks of this world as a collection of
objects […] and each person considers himself as a thing. […] For, you see, how
many things we are depends upon the point of view which one takes. […] And
according to the way which we look, so we divide the things of the world. […] Because
by breaking down our world into things is the way in which we think
about it. We break down the material world into objects and assign to those
objects the kind of words we describe as nouns. And then the world of action we
break into ”events”. And assign to events the kind of word we call verbs. But
things and events are fundamentally the ways of breaking up our complex world
so that we can think about it.”
(Alan WATTS, ”Things
and Thinks” video lecture)
Similar to the English pair of words THING – THINK I found
the Romanian pair MINTE (mind) – A MINŢI (to lie).
Related to the illusion of the world as a collection of
things, Alan Watts discusses about the Sanskrit word Māyā. And
about the required contrast between the things in order that our mind perceives
them.
Which brings me back to Painting, the visual art where
objects and backgrounds are equally estimated. An artist painter regards the
connections and the ensemble.

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