What is technical Drawing?
If you are not an architect/ Engineer or recently built a house it is unlikely you have come across the above term. Even it is not a familier word among many artists. But once you have read this article you may understand not only the meaning of it, but also the connection with subjectivity and mindfulness.
We used to draw images of simple objects. It is a method of representation of a 3d object in a 2d paper. For that matter in a computer even. A cylinder can be drawn as a two equal rectangles, and a circle as seen from above. And architects know these are the most common drawings we use. However if the complexity of the object is more we might need more drawings like both side views back view etc. Compared to the perspective drawing where we try to draw a 3d object combining all 3 shapes of views in a 2d plane. In elevation drawing, only the tops and bottom views ommited.
Technical drawing of a bride or wedding photography
This is not rocket science. Infact if you have phone with a camera we do this all the time. Imagine a wedding photo shoot session. Front on view of the bride on a single photo would not at all tell the story. So the photographer takes multiple views from different angles. From behind, from the sides, even from above and even from below. And this gives more details and more complete picture of what the bride looked like on that day. No wonder these photo shoots are so f----g expensive. It's just an technical drawing of a bride!
I can go on talking about technical drawings more and more. I can fill up an entire screen with 5000 words about these drawings. But I won't do that. As I am exhausted as you are solving knots in life. I am just an ordinary guy who is prone to sickness and tiredness and value conciousness just like you. So your seconds matters just like I value mine. I have only 1000 words to give you a lifetime of wisdom. Another side angle view of your life to try to complete the picture of yourself. I can say its a birds eye view, or a view from top of a tree. But here is the real question. Think about the following.
Understanding technical drawings.
Imagine you were given a technical drawings of a house. And asked which one is correct?
Think about this for a moment. Obvious answer is non of them were correct. But let's go a little bit deeper into this before we come to conclusions and truly understand technical drawings.
If non of them were correct how come we can built a perfect replica of the house using the same plan? It seem non of them were correct is not a good answer. You can say, what is real is the true house. What is built is the real deal right?
But I would say wrong again! The house that you see is just your own perspective of the house. It is just one technical drawing. Infact which iteration of time this drawing of your house upgrades and updates. And if there are 1000 people they have 1000 different technical drawings of the same house. Non of them are correct because its not true thing, non of them are wrong either because It's just relative. And this is not new wisdom. It's the subjectivity of the nature, which have been discussed by generations of philosophers over many years. However, I would say that is a serious fact for mindfulness.
Walking mindfully among blind
For many years, you must have been looking for the real deal of life. The perfect job. Perfect peace and calmness. The perfect happiness. Until you meet mindfulness and the wisdom it provides. It's just relative. No matter how much effort you put into it, you would never see the real deal. The instruments we posess which we call our mind and body are not capable of going beyond the prison of its own. And it just creates magical world which is true and false at the same time. Just like true and false drawings in our argument. And knowing this fact and application of it is, "true" mindfulness. Of course we have to say true at some point as the mind has to cling onto something to exist. But that there is the only way to say an unsayable truth. I can only hope you would see the "house" not the elevations created by your own mind.
Let's walk mindfully among blind.
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