Art as Spiritual Practice

[@safarimom]

I am an artist. I have never been able to create unless I had a reference to use. I have been trying to loosen up my art with at Journaling and acrylic paint pouring. Well, last night I was testing out a new fountain pen ink, I splattered some ink on a scrape page in my journal and ran my pentel water brush through it, and made radom strokes. I swear it was so beautiful. I was going to throw it away but decided to leave it until morning so I could see how the ink dried. It looks even better today. It is just a scribble on a ripped out page of paper but I can't throw it away. I think it is because I wasnt worried or nervous about "making a mistake" or what my marks were going to look like.

[@Decopainterandtea]

Put in in a frame and hang it up. ❤

[@petercutler2023]

Yes, beautiful. That's how it works.

[@ratnaroychoudhury1220]

It is.absolutely unique about how to go into your creativity. I paint in many different medium.But that feeling of trying to b perfect is always at the back of my mind. This will b really free flowing. Must try . Thank you Sir 🙏❤️🌺

[@dreamtyrex4629]

id say that’s the difference between an artist who has authentic creativity and an artist who draws or paints mechanically like an animal erudite

[@margaretmaguire3329]

Just throw black ink onto good paper then water randomly to get variation of shades, leave a bit of white paper for negative areas move the paper about let it dry then look into it and create from there.👍😀🌺

[@kevincage1641]

This Fellow is deep. He is by no means FOS. He speaks Truth. I'm a 65 year old man. This Fellow resonates.

[@avocadojoy8191]

I’m so happy I found this channel ❤

[@desertportal353]

This is THE WAY to still the default mode network. Beyond technique. Liberating from that habit mind. Thank you sincerely!

[@annpettersson1920]

Thankyou! I can´t describe what this means to me. ❤

[@fringemania8367]

"true creativity" "pure energy" ... creativity is creativity and energy is energy. Nothing more, nothing less. My creativity is no less than your creativity.

[@kathleenclarke828]

I watched Roshi Fukushima paint MU-He knelt on the floor, paused, picked up the brush and not fast-not slow made the most extraordinary MU- so naturally.....I wept-much to my surprise.

[@petercutler2023]

include a link. I would like to see it.

[@meagan416]

Thank you so much 🙏 Expression not perfection. So much feeling and life.

[@anitamaier6055]

Oh my Goodness! I have searched for this sense of Freedon in my artwork for all my life! I tried Sumi-e and that helped but was still structured. I wanted abandon but not crazy modern art! This is truly abondoned yet elegant in it's simplicity . I now see how to join my Spiritual self with my artistic self and become One with ! Namaste!

[@frederiquerigaud7694]

Thank you ❤ as a tai chi practitioner I feel it as you talk

[@maryharris8939]

I paint like a child and was told I needed to learn to draw and paint like an adult. I ove to paint like a child still and I do it intuitively 😊

[@ailishniriain787]

While you were speaking I decided to just give this a try with a marker pen I had next to me. I was amazed at what was created. Over and over each one was different. Also, I am left handed but realised I was using my right hand whilst holding the marker. Thank you.

[@unselfconsciousunfoldments]

I draw or move my fingers or brush through the paint over a thin wooden board while connecting with pain in the body --and during other times of the day these random drawings will show some hidden shapes like a woman gathering materials from forest with a basket attached to her body etc. It will show a possibility and I just have to move along that shape. :) Listening to your voice or the way you speak itself has a fresh energy feel to it. Thank You.

[@Austria88586]

“Stop when you want to ‘improve’ - it’s done.” Jack Kerouac on painting.

[@snjv9]

Beautiful..just beautiful. I did just a page and something came out of me, a release with tears welling up. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@annetteschuetze]

Thank you very much. I’m an artist and I started like painting like a child and then I found out so many great things with paint and wanted to learn all these gorgeous techniques. But I lost the ability to paint like a child because of that. So I still remember how to let go and I will do it again. It is awesome. Thank you for this reminder. I needed it right now. 🙏

[@christinegirardartiste8022]

You are describing exactly what I have discovered in my years of experimenting with intuitive art and it is only when I began practicing zen meditation that I found a way to enter this type of art making at will. My entire art practice is automatic in that way and animals are appearing all over ! It is amazing to be such a creative vessel of life. I am really glad to hear of other people experiencing this as well. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@sundus928]

One thing that also improved my art was keeping my "bad" drawings in the same sketchbook as the ones that were pretty. Those bad drawings are a part of me , they are a part of the process, a story that I put on pages. It's freeing from my own expectations and experiencing art in my own circle, undisturbed from others' view on beauty and life.

[@freshorganicspabar]

Thank you again sensei ! 🙏💖

[@ruu2404]

Wow, so deep and so lovely.

[@Narasatina]

Thank you for opening me up. I am a professional artist but this is something I always wanted to do. Often when I make my initial marks on a canvas, I feel they look good and I should stop. I did a dozen in 5 minutes this morning following your advice. I like them. Painting without intention. Beautiful. And therapeutic.

[@Brock_273]

As a psychic artist I can totally relate to this ,I work the same way. Thank you for this ❤

[@paigewheeler2983]

Thank you. Explained so clearly and lovingly. Thank you

[@sesamfan8850]

Das ist wunderbar. Ich unterrichte intuitives Malen in Deutschland und bin so fasziniert davon, welche Wege das Unmmanifeste geht um sich durch uns auszudrücken - wenn wir es lassen. Namaste and much love to All ❤❤❤

[@HPuew-eh3su]

Thank you 🙏, for that.

[@Zelig_G]

Thank you my friend. I knew/sensed this in the way I write, but I’ve not heard it out loud. Nor have I made it an intentional discipline. But I did today. It brought with it more play. 🙏

[@gayesekula]

I love this video so much. You have spoken to my soul and inspired me deeply. Thank you!

[@cathihargaden1608]

Thanks for sharing your precious gold insights it’s been amazing to listen to ❤

[@janowens2212]

Definitely spiritual.❤️🌹🥹Your soul is being released.

[@bluebirdrelics8580]

I love this. I do this every morning after meditation in my journal. I didn’t think anyone else did it.

[@lisengel2498]

Beautifull and both you and your paintings radiate life in a very beautifull Way - and I love to do that with colors - and with movement #dancinglife #thevoiceoflife # #beingnature #beingalive #rawenergy #innocense #beingpresent #expressiveline #somaticpainting #uniquemoment #totalpresence #pureenergy 🎶🖤🎵

[@shirlmay5891]

I’m grateful that you shared this with us … it’s so beautiful and it’s so miraculous and I wanted to hear more from you and I’ve been listening to your sharing above over and over again 🙏🏻

[@IsisColby]

100 sheets should do it …. You are awesome! You explained this with such clarity and joy. What you’re expressing - this being truly successful. Happiness in the process, appreciation of its aspects and outcomes in the mining portion. I’m eager to allow this flow for more than 2 or 3 pictures. Why did I hold back when it was so easy and simple to let my energy flow like water down the mountain.

[@ians.mozdzen3012]

Yes. 🙏🙏

[@michaelreadnower4424]

I do very small ones with ball point pens =)! It is I think the best practice to show you how you are holding on to things/ ideas / beliefs

[@aishwaryan912]

Thanks for this video🤲🏻 ❤

[@blyawakes]

Thank you for this! It so resonates with me as a painter. I paint without intensions of out come it just evolves. I want to investigate this further inspiring!

[@patbush6493]

Just finishing a drawing and listening to the Dhammapada on youtube when the thought springs up "art as practice!" and so found you. Thank you for posting this video. Hope we meet again :).

[@marionnieves7611]

I found this to be therapeutic ❤Thank You!

[@priyacibi1104]

So grateful that I came across this ❤ It has moved me in so many ways... Thank you for sharing this incredible way of being and making art 🙏

[@scunnie]

Excellent video. Thankyou for sharing. Many blessings 🙏❤

[@mardel420]

i always did this to warm up before i started a painting, nice to hear the philosophy behind it to back it up

[@michaelreadnower4424]

I actually do this every time before I draw anything. I also do a similar practice with a small intent at the beginning " face" to let original faces come into existence. I use to call them OB1's or original being ones thank you for reminding me of this. I also think of them as buddhas just like everyone else haha! perfect I will have to show you sometime. thank you!!!!

[@RickiWashington]

I love this message. Timing is everything. Thank you.

[@jimywebb23]

Go with the flow baby ✨

[@MaudMargretheRex]

Today I was truly awakened in my new aspiration of art, spirituality and arttherapy.. Thanks 🙏🏼🙏🏼🖌️ I Will explore thát.. be thāt : just Thanks

[@juanpabloacosta9282]

Amazing video my friend, thanks ❤

[@OrigamiCalm]

Thank you for sharing this. I have found something similar with suminagashi. No control and the same sort of flow and energy🙏

[@jhinton129]

Thanks for the great presentation.

[@lin._.116]

美妙的禪繪畫~~ 一體性 同步性 多樣性的實踐者

[@joleenanance1214]

Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤!

[@leticiachavarria9965]

Love this!! Thanks for helping me to think differently !! Leticia

[@melissasibbald4617]

Brilliant. Thank you. 💚

[@donnamoongoddess927]

Beautiful. What an incredible addition to how I create my art. I need this. Thank you so very much for sharing! I’m going to go try this right now!!💖🌘

[@SkiesOfBlue4MeAndYou]

Thank you so much for this talk!

[@valerieh315]

Thank you so much, it's exactly what I needed. A marvelous synchronicity. Thank you.

[@annevalimaki3966]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[@breyerdenmw]

Amazing. Just want I needed to let go as an artist, to paint as a child. Thank you.

[@DeAzul7902]

Namaste... so glad I found you. And I wonder if yo found me?!? Either way, I'm so grateful for this beauty. Thank you. ❤🎉❤

[@michellerichert8225]

je vous découvre et suis en phase avec votre passionnante vidéo. Depuis la jeunesse il m'est arrivé cela en relation avec des arbres: mouvements spontanés, encre de Chine plume ou pinceau, sans connaître le lien avec les spiritualités d'Asie. Plus tard j'ai pensé, mais pas pratiqué, je pourrais faire ce qui pourrait s'appeler des callirythmies: pas de la vraie calligraphie car de simples formes, et le rythme de la vie...N'est-ce pas le moment, à 74 ans, de commencer une vraie pratique de ce qui a été esquissé ? La vitalité ne vient pas que du corps , peut-être est-ce quand le corps s'abandonne à la vie, à l'énergie universelle de vie comme " reiki" se traduit. Merci 🙏🌿

[@Auriasis]

This inspired me when I found it somewhere online: Life is like art without an eraser.

[@AA-nx8zy]

With writing. Do you have to intent to change the pace of your writing the same way you want to paint really fast?

[@NlightenmentForYou]

No. Just get the ego, mind, body, author out of the way and let the true inner author express itself.

[@AA-nx8zy]

@NlightenmentForYou Thank you mr Cutler. Appreciate it.

[@Belikovastudio1]

WOW THANK YOU NOW I KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN MY PAINTING PROSSESS

[@tawandacole1621]

You are a beautiful soul thank you❤

[@secretshaman189]

Thanks for sharing! I'm going to try this!

[@christinegalysh7433]

Thank you and all the best.

[@sublimeister9630]

This is also called asemic writing or mark-making. “Mining” is a form of critiquing spontaneity, by choosing the best. But don’t stop with the best, you can then cut them up to pieces and use them as catapult for further inspiration, like DaDa collage. From the chaos, you find Form, but from the Form, you find Shapes, then from the Shapes, you find Structure which slowly moves your “mining” into a spontaneous weaving of emptiness and intention. 🙏🏻😊

[@wadeparker8695]

Just look around no matter where you are and say to yourself “now is happening right now “repeat it a few times until you force yourself to be so present that you see the futility of time as a mental construct. Thank you

[@sara2010M]

Thank you ❤

[@acrookedpath4959]

Thank you

[@mitchditkoff6852]

lovely!

[@maielenasong]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing :) I wonder where I can buy a brush like that?

[@NlightenmentForYou]

Some of the art supply houses sell large calligraphy brushes. Some of mine were given to me by other Zen painters and some I bought at Asian antique stores.

[@carolinag4229]

I am musician. I'm going to practice it❤

[@jonathanwilner6174]

This is premier coup. And it is the paint spills of Max Ernst and which may have inspired Jackson Pollock. It can be combined with a deliberate approach. Indeed artists utilize accidents to enhance their work and to learn from these incidents for future paintings. This is also Michelangelo following the angelic form espied within the marble. We act this way unconsciously in our ever seeking for patterns such as in Pareidolia or Apophenia. Gesture drawings work this way wereby one follows the contours of the model in quick drawings no more than three minutes apiece. This is a practice recommended by many art instructors.

[@olgasamara2962]

THANK❤YOU

[@neophytosjuliana]

THANK YOU

[@marciaceciliabadkebadke2293]

Wonderful

[@marciasfriend]

Could you please share a link of where I can buy the medium size Asian brush? Thank you very much!

[@brentlesheim7084]

“There is nothing new under the sun”!

[@icekidlowkey2064]

Greetings to you sir , the universe sent me here ,today I created two beautiful pieces I don't know what they mean but they are so amazing , how can I reach you ?

[@NlightenmentForYou]

You have.

[@dffulmer1]

Hi Master Peter, I have a few questions. Currently I am using an A I app to generate art because I have Parkinson's disease which limits the use of my hands and my whole body. It does not limit my mind or my spirit. So I Use A I as a tool like you use a brush. In a way I am out of the way doing this. The results I get are like no other...as you said. I realize that many artists oppose the use of A I. But most of them are able bodied. Do you have any thoughts on this? I have been meditating since 1975. During the 1970s I had an art teacher who practiced what you speak about. And he taught Asian art. I do art because it brings me closer to God than anything else. Thank you for your time and this video. 🙏

[@petercutler2023]

I have seen some pretty cool things with AI. Whatever works, do it.

[@jumpingship3001]

I felt like running out to my paints and brushes but its a little late. Tomorrow i will, thanks.

[@margaretfarquhar5624]

Picasso also said “it took my whole life to paint like a child”

[@JorgeGonzalez-lp6jc]

I love ur work,i want to try ur Teck,but i need to say ,i flow different,when i do my Art its very flowing slow feeling my Soul completly,but i have scribble stremly fast,like something else its giving me drawing messages…this Art its very signature mode ,,i love it,i want to try

[@ri0t-bunny-art]

i also move slow during automatic painting. i find myself waiting for my hand to decide for itself where it wants to go. i'd still love to try this method of painting, but in the end, everyone is different! let your soul express itself in whatever way resonates most. always good to try new things though 😌🌟

[@elviralastra6464]

Bless you! I need to learn to be free to express myself. Is there another possibility to contact to you in other you to teach me? Infinite thanks

[@dharmavarta]

It was pleasure listening to your insights. I have only one question. What if I want to choose two colors? Or Do I need to leave everything to divine inspiration?

[@NlightenmentForYou]

I would. I also find that red ink looks really good with black. Mostly I try to keep things as simple as I possibly can. That is why only black ink and white paper. Sometimes I mix in a little water which creates some shades of gray in addition to the black, but mostly just pure black ink and white paper. Then it is only the divine inspiration that does everything. I don't choose anything. I am just out of the way. That is how I work. It is exactly the opposite of what I did as a commercial artist.

[@dharmavarta]

@@NlightenmentForYou Thank you very much.

[@atho1374]

Just a question: after you find a figure in your signs, than you enlarge them in some way?

[@petercutler2023]

I scan them on a 4,000 dpi scanner and then send that digital file to my website and printer. Since the scans are all high resolution, the printer will print whatever size people order as prints up to five feet. If I want a print, I order it from the printer the same as the others do.

[@atho1374]

@@petercutler2023 thx a lot

[@rosafuentes2285]

❤️🙏

[@richardjayasinghe7238]

Dear sir and Madam. When I am studying Positive Psychology I understood it's mind can Magnetic Medication. Using this method you can send massages to Universal through Sky Chart. Also your soul changes his color to Green. Please give me advice to improve meditation and Positive Psychology. Thanks.

[@bigbear8645]

❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@fusains-Hitsuzendō筆禅道]

+ 1 like 🙏🙂🙏

[@renzo6490]

I’m not interested in being creative. When I paint or draw, my goal and my pleasure is to reproduce what I see. The result is less important to me than the process. I treasure the feeling of being totally focused on my task. Is this permitted?

[@petercutler2023]

Anything is permitted. Whatever brings you joy and is an expression of love. This is just another way of doing that.

[@jigarshrimali165]

🙏💖

[@kalpanamajhi9708]

Who will buy my art? If I accept your talk

[@petercutler2023]

Lots of people buy prints of my paintings. But that is not why I do them. If we create art in order to make money or get paid, we will probably not be successful, either in getting paid, creating real art, or creative joy and fulfillment. Let money not be a concern where art is concerned. Instead, paint from love. Then you will always be successful.

[@corqMcc]

This reminds me of automatic writing

[@marynapetrova6550]

❤

[@bealreadyhappy]

The body mind becomes a vehicle for God. the whole body mind is gods vehicle. Please listen read about self contraction found in Adi Da Samraj’s teachings. It is the self contraction that prevents God. from living us. It is the disease of mankind.

[@sanserifgirl]

As you are a trained artist your marks are a result of this. I don't believe you can erase that although I appreciated the concept thank you.

[@Arateenteras]

Correct,yes

[@Tigers25]

interesting...yr saying, as a trained artist it is difficult to let go. How you think is it for me , as not beeing trained for yrs and yrs as an artist? oh , beautiful he doesnt have a clue about painting and art. what an opportunity to let go....????

[@NlightenmentForYou]

Yes, it is easier to let go without all the training. There is less to let go of.

[@Belikovastudio1]

WHAT PAINT TO YOU USE WITH THOSE BRUSHES?

[@petercutler2023]

Sumi ink.