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“Sati” is a term from mindfulness traditions, often translated as awareness, presence, or remembering. It points to a quality of attention that is steady, receptive, and awake to the moment as it is. ‘Art of Sati’ takes this as both inspiration and practice—an exploration of what it means to truly see, to be with what is here, and to create from that place of grounded awareness.  

In every brushstroke, line, choice, it is inevitable that I will meet myself . If I’m paying attention, and open, I’ll meet what’s alive within me, my insecurities, my striving, my disconnect, my desire, my emotions, my busy mind, my moments of alignment, my joy….and when I consciously stay and invite compassion and kindness and a willingness to understand, I also meet my tender heart, my intuition, my innate wisdom, my love, my soul’s longing, my innermost intention, my acceptance and forgiveness, and occasionally I might lose myself and experience a flow that is both me and not me, that moves through me and allows me to glimpse the timeless, the oneness, - the brush that paints by itself - and I am somehow a witness, in awe and gratitude and humbled acceptance that it is never I that creates anything, thinks anything, achieves anything - it is the most beautiful energy of the cosmos moving through me, like it does through every aspect of our existence, perceivable if I can get out of the way enough to allow

Here are some of my images from the last few years.

Some will open to a new page where I’ve written a little about that painting, what inspired me or what I was working through, just hover over the image if there a hand symbol, click and it will bring you to a new page.

with deep gratitude to all my amazing teachers, especially my children who have inspired me more that I can say.

Mindfulness - Sati

Mindfulness is the English translation of the Pali word Sati. Sati is an activity. What exactly is that? There can be no precise answer, at least not in words. Words are devised by the symbolic levels of the mind and they describe those realities with which symbolic thinking deals. Mindfulness is pre-symbolic.

It is not shackled to logic. Nevertheless, Mindfulness can be experienced - rather easily - and it can be described, as long as you keep in mind that the words are only fingers pointing at the moon. They are not the thing itself. The actual experience lies beyond the words and above the symbols. Ven. Henepola Gunaratana

Sati (from Pali: सति; Sanskrit: स्मृति smṛti) is mindfulness or awareness, a spiritual or psychological faculty (indriya) that forms an essential part of Buddhist practice. It is the first factor of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment. "Correct" or "right" mindfulness (Pali: sammā-sati, Sanskrit samyak-smṛti) is the seventh element of the Noble Eightfold Path. https://handwiki.org/wiki/Philosophy:Sati_(Buddhism)