Secret Garden Installation |
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Secret Garden uses the teachings of the Sufi mystics as inspiration to create the installation. Employing drawings of dissimilar images, this Sufi Secret Garden offers access to an appreciation of divine unity beyond "cognition." Sufism, an outgrowth of Islam, is a gentle spiritual path based in generosity, kindness, tolerance and respect. Believing that dogma and strict religious systems are antithetical to true knowledge of God, the Sufis teach through enigmatic stories and brief aphorisms that attempt to free the searcher from preconceptions of objective "reality" and organized religion.... When a flame is thrown into another flame they join at the point of "flameness." You throw a torch at a candle and then you say, "See! I have annihilated the candle's flame!" (Ishan Kaiser in Speech of the Sages) When you arrive at the sea, you do not talk of the tributary. (Hakim Sanai, The Walled Garden of Truth) |
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