Shima Trisna

Tag: meditation

  • False Gods, Eternal City

    In the Ovidian tradition, transformation is rarely an acquisition of new traits; it is a violent shedding of the unnecessary to reveal the inevitable.

  • An Offering: Between the Lecture Hall and the Stage

    While the performer elevates the audience through the rhythm and melody, the scholar lifts them through the eye of the mind. The pinnacle of this shared experience is a profound catharsis. Both paths lead to the same state of grace: a moment of relief where the message has reached its mark. 

  • On Self-Hospitality and The Right to Be Celebrated

    Beyond there is the cry of the sky, but on this side, there is me, the wight of my silver and the right to be celebrated, even for the time of a dinner.

  • The Discipline of Quiet Work: Between Studio and Study

    An artist paints in a studio; an academic works at the desk. Both work in silence, slightly out of sync with the outside world. Isolation is not the enemy; more often, it becomes a quiet companion in the journey.

  • Lohengrin and the Grace of Disappearance

    There are periods in history which later generations are fast to call dark or stagnated, not because nothing of significant occurred within them, but because what occurred resisted immediate visibility. ‘A foggy period’ one may call; something which is often mistaken for emptiness. Yet in nature, fog gathers only where temperature, pressure, and time converge.…