• The Road For Artists: It Starts Within

  • By: Lila Tace
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The Road For Artists: It Starts Within

By: Lila Tace
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  • Weekly Episodes On God And Art — short, meditative contemplations for artists.
    Lila Tace
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  • Non-Duality And Art: Who Are You Becoming?

    Non-Duality And Art: Who Are You Becoming?
    Jan 31 2025
    The Song From Today's Episode: I'll End In My Heart'The Road For Artists' Community 📿The 'God And Art' Book SeriesTranscripts Mastery in an area of life is you dying to yourself in that area of life. You've surrendered yourself to your work and are no more when you create. You freely create without the mask of identity boxing you in. You are your soul when you create. You enter the flow of life and disappear into the work.The resistance you feel creating and mastering any field is the past self dying to itself. The past gets surrendered and you are free of that layer of past. The past comes up as emotional turmoil and with each step towards your goal, you burn it away. Eventually, you sail freely and create without the past; without the mask of identity. That is mastery. You walk the road until you become the road.When Picasso paints, he paints like a child. He paints in utter freedom. He paints without knowing what he’ll paint, he just paints. He absorbs into the painting and the activity of painting is left. There is the painter, the activity of painting, and the physical object (the painting). But perhaps there is just God. All collapses into the flow of life. You are the dance itself and you submit. You leave your intellect at the door. Your ego cannot enter the dance. Your past burns in the face of God.The painting dictates Picasso's every move. I watched him paint a cubism painting in five minutes (see the video in the show notes HERE). He has no clue what the painting is going to be but paints and the painting comes together. Magically the moves fall together in one effortless dance of painting. The painting starts one thing and ends quite unexpectedly embodying an entirely different shape and character. What’s the mystery of Picasso?He learned from the greats; learned technique, imitated, and replicated. That phase I call ‘The Box’. Then he rebelled, broke all rules and norms, and developed his own style and character. Let’s call this phase ‘Breaking The Box’. But the past burns in the face of Mastery. The identity melts, and the ego is surrendered to the act of divine creation. Now there is no more box left only art. And that is art. Death is not art; art is alive. Art created free from the past, without the mask of identity comes from a deep intuitive space. Making art becomes meditation and an ecstatic expression of the soul for its own sake. That state gets captured into the piece of art and that piece of art comes alive and emanates God. That is art. Death is not art. In mastery, the voices subside and the intellect submits. All moves are dictated by the art. A very high level of intuitive action arises at the right time and the art births itself. It is a very divine experience. It is action that tastes like non-action. You merely submit and observe the art being birthed through your very hands. You enter the flow of life and come alive.A master has to unlearn everything to be free to create art as his authentic soul expression. Authenticity is art. But to establish self in authenticity is hard. To get good the artist accumulates, assimilates, and replicates. But to be authentic he has to die to himself and to everything he has accumulated. The firm ground he established needs to be demolished. It is scary to face the unknown. The ego is terrified to surrender to God.This is way beyond intellectual capacity. It is meditation. A direct expression of the soul for its own sake. It is yoga, union, the yoga of action (non-action)—the merging of artist, art, and creation into the flow of life. Art conceived alone. The result of such work is potent work—alive, emanating work that gives a taste of God as it was created with the soul. The road to mastery is the inner battle of the identity dying to the soul. Art becomes beautiful when it is created without the filter of identity. Art is beautiful when it emanates God. Art gives a taste; direct experience of the state the artist is in when creating art. Living art is holy art. Death is not art. You die to yourself until you are your work. You become your work. To make art or to be art? To be or not to be? (Shakespeare) That is the question. In other words, the past self dying to the emerging self. The past self screams through thoughts and emotions until those thoughts and emotions exhaust themself to resolution and fall away. You have emerged freer and lighter than before—each art session—a purge. You transmute your past through your painting, molding, singing. Your pain becomes an artifact. When the pain is burnt your joy becomes an artifact. I am currently reading a biography of Frida Kahlo. She suffered most of her life tremendously from polio first and then from an automobile accident. She was bedridden and painted her pain. Her paintings are her autobiography. The life she craved to expel by tasting life, she expelled and encapsulated in her paintings. Her paintings ooze and emanate life even to the blind, novice ...
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    14 mins
  • Complete Self-Expression Is The Key To Success: To Make Art Or To Be Art?

    Complete Self-Expression Is The Key To Success: To Make Art Or To Be Art?
    Jan 24 2025
    The Song From Today's Episode: A Higher Choir'The Road For Artists' Community 📿The 'God And Art' Book SeriesTranscripts Complete self-expression is the key to success.Actions that are complete cast no shadows. Complete actions arise as spontaneous, natural expressions of the soul without any filter through the image we hold of ourselves. When such work meets the world, authenticity shines through and connects naturally with the hearts that it is for. Limiting self-expression by trauma responses is the root of unnatural, sporadic, and distorted manifestations of that expression in the world. The world is your state of being. Once falseness is shed, your natural self-expression naturally occupies its niche and nurtures you and the right hearts. Entrepreneurship is but a natural autonomous expression of being. Our past and our traumas cloud that expression of the soul. When you create freely and share your work, watch your emotional responses acutely and withhold opposing currents and resulting opposing actions. Don‘t delete your work; let it be, and work on your inner responses instead. Free yourself, creation by creation, and manifest your destiny. The destiny that is meant for you. You are your destiny! Don‘t be ugly and add to the ugliness, but be a source of light and bring love to the world by becoming love yourself. Face your falsehood, face resistance, and choose your soul. You are that. Who will take it from you but you? No one is a victim of circumstance. The world is not cruel. It's simply inside-out, not outside-in manifestation. Understand that, claim back your power, and fight for your soul. Don‘t play cat and mouse. You are playing alone.Why do I say ‘You Are Your Destiny?’Well, I also say you are your art. You are your business. Your authentic soul expression in the world is a manifestation of the authentic you in the world. It is very hard to project forth your authentic self as layers of past (accumulated identity) infringe and obstruct the light of your soul. When you face those layers of falsehood and surrender them to the flow of life you become more organic and free in your expression. Eventually, what is left is your effortless, flowing, natural soul expression in the world and you become your art. You are your business. You don’t copy and imitate but you are you. That is the only action that casts no shadows. All other actions are derived from your collected past. You are in a box, inorganic, and your creations are ugly. Creating from your soul feels like you are reentering the dance of life. You paint in ecstatic divine meditation. You experience non-action. You submit yourself to the painting and you become the painting.To make art or to be art?Isn’t that the question? You can either be meditation or your accumulated past which becomes your prison. Lighten the load by shedding the past by making art. Remove all layers of obstructed, inorganic self-expression by making art. Face your screaming emotions and share your art. No one cares about your art just yet, so what? Do it to free your little soul. No one cares because you create work from your accumulated past and not with God. Moments of great art will eventually slip through. Stay humble and make art to free your authentic soul expression. Use art as your spiritual discipline.Fierce freedom.I don’t judge others, consequently, I don’t judge myself and create in utter freedom. My self-expression is not dampened by my fears as I am melting them in my heart. I am free as I am freeing myself of my past. I am free as I walk without my given name. Can fierce freedom be named? How can the world mask freedom? How can the world put freedom in a box? I am not a mask; I am not a box.Crystal clear clarity.Clarity means I know what to do and how to do it. The only thing keeping me from the action is my past conditioning that I need to face along the way in the form of opposing thoughts and emotions. Intelligence means awareness. The more aware one is, the more one sees reality as it is and can make decisions independent of one's identity (past conditioning). Clarity truly is intelligence. Your identity keeps you from seeing reality as it is.The ocean.The still water is clear. The moving water is cloudy. Clarity is stillness. Movements cloud clarity. The ocean's surface is wild and unpredictable. The deeper we sink into the ocean, the more stillness and potent silence we find. Only the surface fragments; stillness collapses the many into one. The deeper we sink into ourselves, the closer we are to truth and God. The further we disperse, the more fragmented we are.To see or not to see.Reality is always different from one's personal distorted view. The bigger the distance between reality and distortion, the more neurotic and less sane the person. The closer you match your filter with reality (best take it off from time to time), the clearer you see and the smoother you move within your little world. To be or not to be. To...
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    12 mins
  • Potent Work: Potency Vs. Force

    Potent Work: Potency Vs. Force
    Jan 6 2025
    The Song From Today's Episode: Unapologetically Me'The Road For Artists' Community 📿The 'God And Art' Book SeriesTranscripts I used to think that hard work was the root of great work. That force was necessary to create work worth sharing. I have come to a different conclusion. I realized that when I am aligned with my authentic/natural being, work flows effortlessly. I realized that when I force, I am not in complete alignment. Forced work pales in comparison to work created naturally. We are diverted and perverted and as far from our soul as it gets. Every soul has a unique fragrance and a unique gift to bring to the world. Self-discovery lies at the root of uncovering the soul and its inherent gift. Most are not aware of their dilemma. When perverted and twisted into an image, everything takes effort and great force. When shedding layers of falsehood, the right work eventually finds and nurtures us. The more in alignment, the less effort the creation takes. Through the work, we uncover our part, and by carefully sailing towards soul alignment (natural being—no effort—authentic self-expression), we eventually arrive at our part. And our part is unique to us. That part is direct experience of the soul in complete self-expression (total vulnerability); hence is created effortlessly like a flower emits its fragrance. In total vulnerability (without images/ direct experience of soul), I speak the truth confidently, my songs carry themselves, and I disappear into the words. The work meditates on me as much as I meditate on the work. I disappear into the act, and that is Yoga. That is devotional work. The result of that selfless act is potent work. Potent in the sense that it was not created by an image but by direct experience. Bathing in meditation, I create work, and that work comes alive. That potent work draws the right hearts naturally. Neither the creation nor the distribution of the work takes effort. A potent song eventually finds its audience. Think ‘Sound Of Silence’, by Simon And Garfunkel.The song was a flop until it slowly caught on. A potent song takes you from the busy world, and your neurotic mind right to the core of you. It shocks to silence. A song composed in deep meditation captures sanity and directly relays sanity to the listener. Such a song is alive and lives on its own. Such a song in time will find its audience. Such songs appear effortlessly and the artist feels he has not touched the work, simply brought it to the world. To create in such fierce freedom the young artist has a long path ahead of him. He has to face himself with each creation. Each creation is a purge of the past and a step towards greater creation. The past keeps the artist from creating freely. Past restrictions of authentic/ natural self-expression keep the artist from creating freely. Today’s restrictions are purged by making art and surrendering emotional blocks to God. Layers of, ‘What will others think of me?’, ‘What is deemed okay to share and within acceptable parameters?’, ‘Who am I to create taste and stand for something?’ and all further robotic expressions of self are to be surrendered and faced. Artists are sitting in boxes of their own making. A sad thing really. Break the box! Art is not created in a box but in total free fall. Forget the rules and your education and make art with your soul. Face every emotion in the way of pure authentic self-expression. It will be easier to create in meditation with each shedding of a layer of past. In time you’ll witness that the you in meditation is the true you, as the you in pain melts in the face of God. Your spiritual practice of surrendering your ego to God is making art. Making art is scary and sharing art? Even more so. It is the fastest path I know of to carve an artist into an angel. Long hard looks in the mirror in darkness with only God to lead. You know the path, you’ve walked it. Keep walking and don’t stop. The part of me that forces, wants to grasp, understand, dissect, rationalize, have control, and take credit - I surrender to God. What takes over when I release the layer of petrified control-seeking is a deeper part of me. My ego fights and creates problems and complexity and yet when I sit in my soul the words form naturally. Quite a paradox to surrender and leap into the unknown and not intellectually understand and be in control. It is scary but that fear I surrender also. Staring at a blank Google doc my ego has no control, knows not what to do, feels stuck, and cries for firm ground. Then I close my eyes and meditate and surrender all force to find myself in the flow of life and after my session, a wonderful podcast episode typed itself through my very hands. How incompetent the little ego compared to my soul sailing in wild freedom. That is my honest experience of creation. I believe that what you are most suited to do you have no idea how you do, for it simply happens through you. And that is ...
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    13 mins

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