IS PEACE A DESIRABLE QUALITY IN A CORPORATE CULTURE ?

PEACE IN THE WORKPLACE

Is peace a desirable quality in the corporate culture you work within? Usually business is about getting things done; about supplying the products and meeting the needs of the people you are serving; about “delivering the goods”. Obviously any work you do is meant to satisfy certain goals and conditions, but is one of those goals PEACE in the hearts and minds of all parties involved — you, your higher ups, and your end line users?

The right ART could make huge strides in the corporate setting to ensure an environment in which PEACE is employed instead of struggle and strife. There are some works of ART that bring our minds to PEACE, when we have a good ART LOOK at them. Here is a Kwan Yin that I find particularly worthy of its ability to change your vibration from one of concern and agitation to one of a harmonious inner “OM”.

This sculpture of a person totally relaxed does wonders for your internal state of being. If you were to stare at this picture for 60 seconds (not the usual 4-5 seconds that research shows most people spend LOOKING at a piece of ART in a museum) you will notice an obvious change in your inner mood toward increased calm. I dare you to try it. Right now. And welcome you to comment on your results of this ONE MINUTE meditation.

What if you gave ONE MINUTE an hour in your work-a-day world to this kind of “power meditation”. That is 8 minutes a day out of 480. Small investment, no? People would not even outwardly notice you are doing this practice. Think of what it would do for your productivity. You may actually be inspired, and through that inspiration be noticed and rewarded more in your corporate culture as a visionary and a person who can implement the best and the brightest WORK.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Implement PEACE in the PLACE OF REAL PRODUCTIVITY — inside your SELF in your own MIND. Make your corporate culture a veritable sanctuary for your own JOY, and the JOY of those around you.

MARKUS RAY

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I AM AT YOUR FEET

The Significance of Feet

The feet are the lowest and humblest part of the body, the connection we have with the earth, and the grounding factor when it comes to spiritual symbolism. These are the feet of SONDRA RAY before our wedding in India in 2009. They are commonly painted this way with henna, the night before the wedding festivities.

This is the first ODE in my new book, soon to be out in March, Odes to the Divine Mother

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I Am At Your Feet

I am at Your feet, forever at Your feet. To me that is higher than Mt. Everest. You are beyond the stars, so Your toes are the very galaxies I cannot comprehend. To touch them is to rise higher than I have ever gone. To leave this world a moment in my contemplation of You is to travel light years past my familiar places, past the planets of this solar system, past my place on earth in this small body of flesh and bone, into another realm of Divine perfection. I cannot fathom You, but nonetheless my certainty grows of Your omnipresent existence in everything I can sense, and in everything so far beyond what I can sense. Even my thought falls short of conceiving Your immensity. I am silenced for a while in gratitude, knowing Your tender loving care surrounds me in all time and space—Your caresses upon my soul reassure my inner child, walking ahead of You, that my Mother will always be there, just a half step behind me, to guide my steps and cushion any fall. O Mother, I sing my praises to You as I enter into a New Life. Purge me of all guile, make me Your servant more and more; come into me completely and inspire my Life to be an action of beauty for You.

— MARKUS RAY

DARSHAN OF THE MOORTI

JESUS OF MADRID

There is a practice in India of making a statue, or an image of a deity or an enlightened being, in which the art object itself is imbued with the “living presence” of that deity or being. They call this work a MOORTI. Often in holy places that commemorate this sacred figure, the MOORTI is placed within a temple or public area where people can come and receive the blessings of its DIVINE PRESENCE. This is sometimes viewed in the West as “idol worship”, but it is not at all that way.

The only “idol” is our separated “ego”, and the MOORTI is designed to release us from our ego of separation and isolation we feel, and put us into an awareness of our oneness with creation, our wholeness and HOLINESS. It makes us feel Happy.

Even in Mexico City there is a church that houses Our Lady of Guadalupe. In various churches in Europe people travel thousands of miles to see a statue of the Virgin Mary. I myself traveled to Colmar, France, to view the Isenheim Altarpiece, by the painter Mathias Grunewald.  He painted one of the best images of the Resurrected Christ ever done. The point I am making is that even in the West we have MOORTI’s, from which people derive authentic spiritual edification. They are certainly not dead objects of “idol worship”.

In India we learn so much spiritual wisdom. When you have a vision of the holy being, alive or in the form of a depicting art work, this is called a DARSHAN. To have this vision is considered one of the highest actions of Life. People in India stand in lines of thousands to receive the DARSHAN of the Holy Master. The modern day saint Amritanadamayi, or, Ammachi, often blesses thousands of devoted pilgrims in one sitting on a daily basis. They come come to receive this holy blessing of DARSHAN.

I paint these pictures of Jesus, Babaji or the Divine Mother to have the LIVING PRESENCE of the HOLY MASTER. This one I just finished for the New Year. “JESUS of 2015” is a MOORTI. May you enjoy the DARSHAN you receive from it.

—MARKUS RAY

The painting is 73CM X 100CM (29 IN. X 39 IN.), Acrylic on Canvas, BIDS START at $2500 + Crating and Shipping from MADRID, SPAIN.

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“JESUS OF MADRID”