When Doug first discovered Rupert Spira, it was the elegant pottery that captured his interest. However, upon discovering the Non-Dual pages on the website, it was the teachings that he found compelling. Doug found his visual imagination became fired up with colours, textures, shapes, and experimental ideas while reading the or listening to the teachings.
Doug’s inspiration for the Sunshine Sangha illustration came to him when he was at one of Rupert’s Santa Sabina retreats, taking a walk during a break between a Question & Answer session and a meditation. During this walk Doug noticed that the sidewalk, which was scattered with leaves, looked like the starry night sky to him, and upon a further glance, the tar lines on the streets looked to him as if they were dancing.
This experience led to Doug doodling shapes and patterns on his iPad once he returned to his room, and it was after some experimentation that he created the sunshine sangha. This particular illustration appeared after Doug had been listening to one of the yoga meditations from the retreat on the oneness of all experience, the loving space of awareness, and God’s face shining in every form.
For a longer essay on artwork, why not take a look at Caroline Seymour's essay on Jordan Wolfson ?
