 | Visudi |
In 2005, along with artist and researcher Zachary C. Jones of Sufficiently Advanced Technology, I began conceptual and experimental research into vortex motion. Because the phenomena reflects the internal world of experiential practices that I had encountered through studies in Buddhism, the name Visudi (adapted from the Buddhist Pali word visuddhi, which translates as "purification," or "purity") was chosen as the name for this work.
"Everything material is also mental and everything mental is also material"
David Bohm
Visudi and Sufficiently Advanced Technology (SAT) joined in July of 2005 for the purpose of conducting research into the governing physics of purification through vortex motion, as it relates to both water and consciousness. In September 2005, after receiving a grant through Arizona State University, we began design of a prototype. The prototype was created to function as an instrument to enable a stable vortex water flow. The fluid dynamics and novel physics involved in this system are now being studied for the purpose of developing a sustainable water purification technology.
Governing Physics of Purification through Vortex Motion
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As it Relates to Consciousness
While conducting research into water purification, the vortex dynamics revealed through our prototype instrument, also illustrate an expression of dharmic sculpture.
"Dharma Art is symbolism that is the truth."
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
As consciousness interacts with the motion and underlying physics of the phenomenon, an experiential physics of accordance can occur, allowing perception to transcend mind and matter, subject object divisions.
"The common division of the world into subject object, inner world and outer world, body and soul, is no longer adequate..."
Werner Heisenberg
The physical dynamics that occur within the vortex motion, while functioning as a purification instrument, may both underlie and correspond with subtle experiential processes - namely, those that occur within the mind when in alignment with liberating, or purifying, processes. Purification, in this sense, refers to the non-conceptual activation and progression of insight as it relates to the overcoming of inner turbulence, or mental clinging, to habitual or afflictive mindstates - eventually leading to release from self-generated suffering. By engaging within the perceptual and experiential physics of this phenomena, a natural relaxation occurs, allowing a liberating transparency to arise on the nature of mental phenomena.
"The notion of spin particularly fascinated me: the idea that when something is spinning in a certain direction, it could also spin in the other direction but that somehow the two directions together would be a spin in a third direction. I felt that somehow that described experience with the processes of the mind. In thinking about spin I felt I was in a direct relationship to nature."
David Bohm
As mind interacts with this dynamical vortex water motion, a resonating alignment between what is experienced as inner and outer can occur. This reciprocity of resonance creates a condition for an interrelationship to form between inner processes and outer appearances. As this interrelationship is entered, there is a holistic relaxation of clinging to one's identity. As the grip of one's identity is released through an experiential alignment with the vortex motion, that which functions to veil or obscure the mind from its deeper nature becomes increasingly more transparent. The appearance of separation, or the gap that is perceived between the inner aspects of experience with outer aspects of nature, diminishes.
This motion of release casts off a kind of lens, or space of reflection, which functions simultaneously as filter, illuminator and purifier - resembling the intentionality of the water purification form itself. Thus the resonance we experience occurs through a type of synthesis that combines visual, vibratory, and acoustical linguistics. The highly subtle motion takes the form of our DNA, perhaps mimicking or mirroring its dynamics wholly, establishing a foundation for awareness to touch into a language that precedes formation.