#ash is very profound in this podcast i feel and it was such a great look into his mindset as a musician

[starvinginbelair]

"We're close yeah. Especially with our songwriting thing. I really love writing-I love writing with all the guys, they have different muses that you engage with, and we all write a specific kind of song together but...Luke and I have a special relationship with our songwriting stuff. It's kinda like we don't allow anything to touch it. Like even if him and I had a disagreement or something, we'd still write a song together the next hour cause it's compartmentalized in a space that's safe. And just creative and respectful."

— ashton irwin on his creative relationship with luke hemmings on artist friendly

#5sos #ashton irwin #luke hemmings #lashton #ash is very profound in this podcast i feel and it was such a great look into his mindset as a musician #i personally loved it #this is also so fun because luke and ash never really like wrote together one on one until youngblood #so like did they just not ??? realize ???? that this was their writing relationship ????? FOR FIVE YEARS????? #i also adore the way they love each other like #you can tell it's a very safe relationship for them both #5sos quotes

[gabrielleragusi]

My favourite art podcasts

Sometimes people ask me if I listen to music, audiobooks or even watch films while working. Usually I don’t watch films because I want to give them my full attention, but I do listen to audiobooks (fiction and non-fiction) and of course I listen to music.

Mostly, though, I listen to podcasts. History, comics, videogames and art are my favourite topics - and I say ‘podcasts’ because of their presence on iTunes, but many are also on YouTube, if not only there.

So I thought to share my favourite podcasts/ shows here!

One Fantastic Week

A show co-hosted by Pete Mohrbacher and Sam Flegal, two of my favourite artists, on YouTube and also iTunes. They bring weekly interviews/ friendly and inspiring conversations with amazing artists. Sometimes I listen to certain episodes more than once because not only they are interesting, but also offer a lot of information for freelance artists like me.

Art Side of Life

It’s a daily podcast and I adore it! Hosted by Iva, the show brings interviews with artists from all over the world and the episodes focus on different topics, from the technical side of a job to more profound thoughts on artistic struggles and successes - first jobs, failures, advice and general growth of a creative person. It’s super inspiring!

Chiustream/ Schoolism live interviews

My favourite show in terms of guests, because Bobby Chiu, founder of Schoolism and Imaginism Studios, always invites my favourite artists (James Gurney, Nathan Fowkes, Mike Mignola, Kim Jung Gi, just to name a few). That I impatiently wait for Bobby to update the channel... is absolutely true.

On the YouTube channel you can find all the videos, Bobby’s streaming sessions and Schoolism interviews. If you want to watch only the interviews, you can find them here.

Art Cafe

It is one of the best art podcasts. Ever. Founded by Maciej Kuciara (concept artist, again, one of my favourite artists), the show offers so much inspiring and informative interviews with great artists from all over the world. It’s probably the first podcast I ever subscribed to (because I was interested in concept art and working in the industry at the time and conversations are mainly about these particular topics).

The Collective Podcast

Super amazing podcast created by Ash Thorp. Inspiring interviews not only with artists, but also photographers, directors, producers, musicians and other creative industry leaders. While the main topic of the show is art, the conversation touches many topics such as videogames, books, the future and where the hell the world is going... and my all-time favourite, films. Ash talks a lot about films and at times invites creative people to do entire commentary episodes on certain visual masterpieces (Alien, Akira...).

Level Up!

Not really a podcast, Level Up! is a YouTube channel (and Facebook group) created by Wojtek Fus and Darek Zabrocki that brings interviews with artists who mainly work as illustrators, concept artists and art directors. Unfortunately the updates aren’t very regular, but each session is so inspiring and informative!

I can’t express in words how much these podcasts help me every day, especially when I feel like giving up on art and just choose a job that doesn’t require creativity and an incredible amount of patience  ❤

#Art #Art podcast #podcast #show #Artists #Illustration

[dharmaocean]

Dharma Ocean on The Pilgrimage Within

Originally published on healthtian.com

This article was adapted from Dharma Ocean Podcast 239, a talk given by Dr. Reggie Ray at the November 2016 Meditating With the Body Retreat held at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England. Dr. Reginald “Reggie” Ray is the Director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, dedicated to the evolution and flowering of the somatic teachings of the Practicing Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

Good morning, everybody. We have this wonderful opportunity to be together for a few days and to do the most important thing in the world. And that’s a very rare thing in human life. Most of the time, we spend our time doing things that are not the most important thing in the world.

We spend our time doing things that don’t touch the depths, and more and more in modern culture, our lives are set up, so we never touch the depths. Many people don’t even know there are such depths within. Hence we spend our whole lives trying to feed ourselves dust and ashes, eating sand and drinking brackish water while we’re starving and dying of thirst.

But there is a different way, even though the modern world has almost entirely lost sight of it. This is a different way in which humans were born to be connected with what is timeless in ourselves. We were born to go to the full depths of life and live from that place because that’s actually where life is found.

It’s very beautiful here with the changing weather, the sun coming and going, the wind blowing through the trees. And this beauty is also in ourselves—a tremendous beauty and depth of feeling from being alive and feeling the sacredness of our own life.

Sometimes people make a distinction between the secular and the mystical or religious. That’s a very superficial way of thinking because if you fathom the world’s great traditions, you end up at a source of life, the eternal depth of the human person. If you fully fathom the secular world, again, you wind up at a depth of life and the timeless source of our person.

You wind up in the same place. And that’s what traditional meditation is about, whoever you are, whatever your religious or political beliefs or your culture, or your station of life. Until we discover the road back to the source, we have not become fully human, and we can’t live a fully human life.

This isn’t about individual people. It’s about a lineage that goes back hundreds and thousands of years. People come and go, nations come and go, cultures come and go. But the stream of spirituality that we are part of endures beyond all of the changes.

Public traditions and religions fall apart or become corrupt. We see this in the history of religions. The public external traditions often became corrupt, polluted, and even poisoned. But for some, the inner depth was never compromised. Especially the meditators would go to their own depths, their inner lives, their felt sense of life, their body’s unfailing intuitions and discover there the same things people discovered in the external initiations, such as going into the mysterious depths and darkness of underground places.

There’s a very famous person in our tradition from the 5th century in India named Saraha. One day he was meditating in his little hut by the river Ganges. Somebody came along and said, “we’re going to go on a pilgrimage.” A pilgrimage is when you go to sacred places, perhaps because your life isn’t working and you’ve lost track of yourself, and you’re living too much on the surface.

“We’re going to see all these wonderful sacred places; there will be all kinds of colorful experiences, it will be so much fun. Why don’t you come with us?” Saraha declined—he said the greatest place of pilgrimage on the planet is my own body because within my own body is the holy river Ganges and all the sacred sites in India as well.

He was saying that by exploring my body, by exploring my inner world, I can make a much more profound and transformative pilgrimage than you people can by wandering around and looking for it somewhere outside. And that’s very much our tradition. That’s what we’re doing here. Our embodied, or “somatic meditation,” is a Vajrayana tradition from the Eastern regions of Tibet, a region called Kham—a total backwater.

If you saw pictures, you wouldn’t understand how people could live there. These little rundown huts and stone houses and tremendous open territory with not much happening. And this is where this tradition survived for 1,000 years. That’s what we’re doing here. We have taken off the Tibetan cultural trappings, which are very heavy and really get between us as modern people and the teachings that we seek. And they’re not necessary.  But what is left is stunning, and it is what all of us have most deeply longed for, forever.

About Dharma Ocean

Dharma Ocean is a global educational foundation in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, focusing on somatic meditation as the way to help students – of any secular or religious discipline, who are genuinely pursuing their spiritual awakening.  Dharma Ocean provides online courses, study resources, guided meditation practice, and residential retreats at Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.

#buddhism #dharma ocean #pilgramage