Art as balance between unprejudicement and control

The limits of perception of the western physical model of unsharp relationship and the far eastern conception of satori in the ZEN philosophy.

I am an individual and underlie real existing facts.
I am the result of individual and collective facts.
I am stuck in my own skin in it's deeper sense, and I can't do anything to get out of it.
Several "skins" enclose me, the genetic, the pedagogical, the cultural, the historical, etc. As a perceiving creature I can get aware of this and reflect it in my mind.
It truely is one of the main achievements of the human mind to find "reality", although that isn't possible by no means. Reality has nothing to do with truth or absolutism. Reality is existance, conciousness and freedom from categories.

Similar to the term "unsharp relationship" known in physics when the results start to blur the more exact the measurement is, my perception also influences my "individual" reality. When I start to follow a track, when I have a plan, a program or an idea I am already prejudiced, so that I can't be objective anymore. The will destroys my ability of being real.

Those who are interested in science know that we just can measure an approach to reality. As a perceiving creature I just can do the same. At the moment I give up my wishes, my plan, my idea and all categories a veil falls off my eyes the "windows of my perception"are opened. This act, which is called satori in ZEN philosophy, is like "leaving behind the borders and the covers".

Negating my perception isn't the right step because this doesn't lead to exactness and objectivity. The ability for reality only comes from freedom of any endeavours, only this leads to the possibility for building reality. That is a constructive act which shows up potentials. When I am able to perform the "art-less" art, when I perform it not because of my will but from my inner nature and when I do it just because I would do it anyway and when I'm wrapped with it forgetting myself and my own facts, then I can come to the told ability for reality which is free of my individual limits.

This shows that I'm not bound in Platons Cave. Being aware of the given facts opens possibilities of creating reality which is free from any categorizations. This may be the most delightful reason for performing arts.
Because this kind of freedom is a "conscious" act it is free from chaos – it is a conscious state. Acting successful is not the exact persecution of an exact plan – it is more the result of conscious actions. At the moment when the diverting self steps back and the individual is absorbed by its own doings it does those acts which at the end will lead to bloom.

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