Andy Warhol. Electric Chair

Eskimo have 72 words meaning various states of water. We have less: water, steam, ice, snow, sleet, hail, fog ... this is enough for our conditions. A translation of an ordinary Eskimo story will be difficult to us. We do not have a comparable perceptual experience and the associated vocabulary.

Tibetans have 17 words for the different states of mind. I will give out the secret of how our translators handle – they translate from English! The presumption with information thus submitted is that you have similar perceptions with the Englishman. The affirmation is that the blue which is in your head is the same blue, which is in the head of the Englishman who without doubt had in mind the Tibetan lama, giving concrete and specific guidance with his text to specific students during specific practices , in the 15th century for example. I can, however, assure you that the blue you have never seen is more blue than the one that you would hardly see.

There are things in the texts which are simple and comprehensible. Tibetan meditation teacher will check and tell you what is your fundamental mental attitude - concrete or abstract interpretation of reality emerging in your mind through perception. With abstract interpretation attitudes you will see the same event as lights or as scenes and characters from your cultural group. Note the difference - at a certain stage of meditation will see either lights, or stage, the reality around us. Not to get confused – pinch yourself and touch your computer for example. Yes, do it now! Relax, everything is fine, you do not hang over an abyss of conscious energies, you are sitting at your computer. That is your concrete reality. And another meditator will see it as light fields interacting. On the subject of direct vision and direct knowledge remember Castaneda, if you cannot think of something else.

One sees what one knows. So while you were eating your "popara" as a child, you were uploaded the right software. It helps you visualize the same way and the same world as your mommy. It’s not funny.

Why do bother you? It’s simple - I wonder how to show you a series of prints by Andy Warhol from his dramatic theme Electric chair. Buy them – I think you can still find them at Saatchi.