Alex Grey

 Alex Grey is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art. He spans a variety of forms including performance art, installation art, sculpture, and most significantly, painting.
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THE VAST EXPANSE

      

I           acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment,           endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of           mind in its wisdom aspect.

      

It           is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity           in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the           moment, Here is the place of Liberation.       

Witness           the contents of mind, the visions and sounds, the thoughts, as clouds           passing through the vast expanse - the sky-like nature of mind. The           rootedness of Being is in emptiness, clarity and awareness: unborn,           unspoilt, stainlessly pure.       

The           infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are           without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are           residents in your awareness.       

I           subject my awareness to the perfection of being, the perfection of           wisdom and perfection of love, all of these being co-present in the           Vast Expanse. I share this panorama of Being and appreciate all I can           share it with...the seamless interweaving of consciousness with each           moment.       

Create           perfection wherever you go with your awareness. That is why this teaching           is admired by artists--they sense the correctness of the response to           life as creative. Life is infinite creative play. Enjoyment and participation           in this creative play is the artists profound joy. We co-author every           moment with universal creativity.       

To           bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings           surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate           them, make offerings to them--these nature spirits who call us here--sealing           our fate with each other, celebrating our love.       

I           am an intersecting kaleidoscope of Being in a rainbow refractive wave           pattern: a corpuscle of light on the ocean...the transparency of my           body with the rocks...sometimes the only way to summarize my feelings           is to draw--to collapse the frenzy in my limbs enough to make a mark           out of profound appreciation for my existence.       

Share           your presence with others, no boundaries, completely openly lovingly.           Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love.           Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love.           That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains           of being. We are constantly drawing the line between love and not love--enter           into the Non-duality Zone, and all judgements dissolve in the Vast           Expanse.       

It's           as though we are co-conspirators of consciousness--everyone, everywhere,           everywhen, mixing up our openable minds. It's as though we could gather           clouds in the sky and people into our lives. Like an eruption of consciousness,           we discover the most important force is love. Experience yourself as           the Source and appreciate every moment as perfection. Sunrise--Sunset.           Thank you, Thank you, Creator, profound unstoppable connectedness of           all beings, pattern to everything, most radical no-thing, the Vast           Expanse.       

       

Alex Grey
      August 22,1994