Jeff Foster (Advaita)
One of the best things about life as a digital artist is that when words fail me (as they do everyone) I can just shut up and let people view my work and make of it what they will. For authors and speakers life is not that easy. They are judged on every word. Look at the world’s religions and you can see straight away what problems words cause. When it comes to subjects like non duality words are often the biggest stumbling block. Take a tree for a minute, how could you write about or describe a tree in a way that would in anyway match the wonder and mystery of what a tree is or isn’t. You really couldn’t even though thousands of people have attempted it. So to attempt to describe how everything that is, really is One is ultimately setting yourself up to fail.
That said there are those that fail more eloquently than others. Those that if you switched off all your perceptions and truly try to hear you may pick up some essence of the beauty of ‘Oneness’.
Looking the part…
What should a guru, a teacher a spiritual person look like? Well we all should know that they should be able to look anyway they like, but in truth we know this doesn’t in fact happen. I myself have been looked up an down at MBS fairs and then had the question ‘Are you the artist?’ Whatever I wear, I seldom if ever fit the perceptions people have of an Artist, let alone one that creates works of a spiritual nature.
Personally I love it when people don’t look as they should. I had a friend once who made and tuned church organs. He dressed much like a Goth. He even had the long dyed black hair. He was a very skilled man and friendly but I still would have loved to be there the day he walked into a church that didn’t know him. They may have thought the antichrist had shown up.
The point being and yes there is one – this guy Jeff Foster looks much like any other bloke you meet down the pub on a Sunday afternoon. So straightaway he’s got perceptions he has to fight against before even opens his mouth and then when he doesn’t do the usual quiet slow delivery of say ‘Eckhart Tolle’ he’s got even more perceptions to battle against.
Jeff foster is a brave man just for opening his mouth. He does have something to say that could help you get this non-dualism stuff if your struggling with it. But are you open to a guy who may not fit your perceptions? Can you listen to endless words to find a pointer to something that ‘just is’ if you can, if you do you may be pleasantly surprised I know I was.
Note the video below is very long
Why not view the jeff foster website http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/
Or the never not here web sitehttp://www.nevernothere.com/
