Transcendental Realism: The Image-Art of Egoless Coincidence with Reality Itself

by Adi Da Samraj

In this catalog of Adi Da Samraj's collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2007, some of his most recent works are reproduced in stunning color. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570972273
• ISBN13: 9781570972270
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Dawn Horse Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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Reality (Itself) Is Truth (Itself) Is The Beautiful (Itself)

Reality (Itself) Is Truth (Itself) Is The Beautiful (Itself) appears in Adi Da Samraj's own hand on the cover of this treasure of a volume of spiritual wisdom on art. And these words present an eternal circular argument of essential aesthetic wisdom, while Adi Da Samraj offers his profound spiritually enlightened commentary on visual art in this utterly ground breaking collection of essays. Adi Da Samraj is both prolific artist, and consummate spiritual master, a Buddha with Picasso's vision, Kandinsky sitting in profoundest spiritual samadhi. As such, both his images and his wisdom on art stand as unique contributions to the history of art and aesthetics. And are the first time an enlightened master has spent so much time communicating the non-dual egoless Self-Condition via visual form. A unique communication of the Awakened State, as one of the essays titles says: In Plain Sight--Without a Word. So this is a unique art form. And a unique artist's vision. Of no self and no difference. Yet perceptual form. Transcendental Realism: The Image-Art of egoless Coincidence with Reality Itself gives a framework for understanding the process and understanding that stands at the root of Adi Da Samraj's images themselves. An art that Adi Da Samraj calls both "non-subjective" and "non-objective". What does that mean? One must investigate to find out, because this an art of revelation, of transcendental illumination, of spiritual unitive profundity. This is not conventional art of perspective, nor is it modern art of abstraction in an of itself. For the artist is trying to convey via image and word the essential realty of truth and the beautiful, which is egoless, which is bright, which is not-ego-based, which stands prior to the "point-of-view" observer of the art itself. One essay, The ego-transcending ordeal of making right and true art, is an extremely clarifying meditation upon what art is really about. And what an artist has to endure, both in their own discipline of artistic expression, and in their own process of life and learning, in order to become truly rightly oriented to, and rightly capable of what the author calls "right and true art". This is the aesthetics of truth and beauty, love and transcendence, and no ego at all. It is light-filled, inspirational, sane, and transformative. As such this volume of essays is a remarkable discussion of the true spiritual profundity of art in general, and the offering of the new tradition of transcendentalist realist art that Adi Da Samraj himself has created, in countless photographic and digital forms.