the awakened eye is the eye that perceives without labeling -we could also call it the innocent eye, or the eye of beginner’s mind.

Many artists and artisans have understood that the practice of drawing and engaging in creative encounters in the visual arts can – by making obvious one’s conditioned reactions – open the mind to another way of seeing, a way that transcends habitual dualistic assumptions.

There have been, and are, many wise teachers who speak of this transcendence of duality as one’s original or true state – a state which we seem compelled to seek and reject simultaneously. Their teachings are sometimes referred to as Advaita, which means “one without a second” – or more simply, non-duality. In this context the awakened eye is synonymous with the awakened I; this topic forms the wider agenda of this blog.

This blog and the website have been conceived as places where ideas and teachings on this topic put forward by artists, educators, scientists, philosophers, sages and saints, can be accessed. There will also be personal notes from she-who-scribbles, and hopefully plenty of useful links.

The title offers a bow of respect and gratitude to Frederick Franck, a true Renaissance Man, and one of my most influential teachers.

As the website and this blog develop (slowly – please be patient), I hope you find inspiration and encouragement here to support your inquiry, and that you realize that your awakened eye - your vast, open, non-dual understanding is here, this very moment, reading these words…

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