LIBERATION IS IMMINENT

A friend writes to me today:

You find yourself in a dilemma where you are “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” You cannot solve such dilemmas by choosing a side because both paths lead to suffering. The only way out is to transform your perspective to a place where the dilemma no longer exists. This is possible–with time, patience and …some…good help.

Einstein said it like this:  “We cannot solve our problems on the same level that we created them.”

TIME TO MOVE TO THE NEXT SQUARE…

With thanks to Lior Shamriz

The City

You said, “I will go to another land, I will go to another sea.

Another city will be found, better than this.

Every effort of mine is condemned by fate;

and my heart is — like a corpse — buried.

How long in this wasteland will my mind remain.

Wherever I turn my eyes, wherever I may look

I see the black ruins of my life here,

where I spent so many years, and ruined and wasted.”

New lands you will not find, you will not find other seas.

The city will follow you. You will roam the same

streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods;

in these same houses you will grow gray.

Always you will arrive in this city. To another land — do not hope —

there is no ship for you, there is no road.

As you have ruined your life here

in this little corner, you have destroyed it in the whole world.

Constantine P. Cavafy (Alexandria,1910)

Kurosawa’s version:

Those who pursue the Dharma, go slow and easy. “Boring” you say? Maybe. Maybe it’s downright dreary to stop and smell a flower or listen to a bird. Maybe a glint of gold is really more dazzling than the sight of one’s Original Face. Maybe what we need is a better definition of “treasure”.

~~zen master han shan

It is possible…
It is possible at least sometimes…
It is possible especially now
To ride a horse
Inside a prison cell
And run away…
It is possible for prison walls
To disappear,
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers

—Mahmoud Darwish

It’s always nice to receive fan mail in the morning!! Thank You, Miguel.

Hello Nina,

I had the chance to see yesterday “Phantom Love”.
It hit me hard, … I was absorbed, on a hypnotic voyage from the start. Lulu just took me away. Every sequence and frame is spelled with so much soul and feeling, on this unique visual grammar you use while you shoot and edit. Your images must be the most organic I ever saw.
I will re-watch the film this evening cause I woke up with so many sequences of it still bouncing in my head,.. the sounds, the games of shadows and light… Thank you for making it.
Still one of the sequences that amazes me from so many point of views, the wide shoot of the casino, that stays till Lulu is revealed as working in it has a croupier. Its something so simple but so outstanding. Nina, your work is inspiring and for that again a big Thank you!
I will be waiting patiently for your next one:)

Best Regards,

Miguel Gaudencio

The only journey is the journey within.~~
Rainer Maria Rilke

my teacher maria….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpT13E83q9o&feature=player_embedded

I’ve said it before but feel compelled to repeat:

SO FOUL A SKY CLEARS NOT WITHOUT A STORM……………………………………….