Alpha wave

Alpha waves, or the alpha rhythm, are neural oscillations in the frequency range of 8–12 Hz likely originating from the synchronous and coherent (in phase or constructive) electrical activity of thalamic pacemaker cells in humans. Historically, they are also called "Berger's waves" after Hans Berger, who first described them when he invented the EEG in 1924. Alpha waves are one type of brain waves detected by electrophysiological and closely related methods, such as by electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG), and can be quantified using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). They can be predominantly recorded from the occipital lobes during wakeful relaxation with closed eyes and were the earliest brain rhythm recorded in humans. Alpha waves are reduced with open eyes and sleep, while they are enhanced during drowsiness. Historically, they were thought to represent the activity of the visual cortex in an idle state. More recent papers have argued that they inhibit areas of the cortex not in use, or alternatively that they play an active role in network coordination and communication. Occipital alpha waves during periods of eyes closed are the strongest EEG brain signals.

Nature art

“If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love.” – Osho “People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.” – Osho 15. “Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.” – Osho

Art photography of rose

“Become alert. Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.” – Osho “Love needs immense consciousness. Love is a meeting of two souls, and lust is the meeting of two bodies. Lust is animal; love is divine. But unless you know that you are a soul, you cannot understand what love is.” – Osho “Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.” – Osho

Abstract painting

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.” – Osho “Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.” – Osho “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.” – Osho “Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.” – Osho

Mandala gallery

Moon mandala, canvas print

Moon mandala
by DuneTaraArt

Abstract art

“Love is a by-product of meditation.” – Osho “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.” – Osho “Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.” – Osho “A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.” – Osho “Love is the goal, life is the journey.” – Osho

Fractal art

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” Osho “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.” Osho “The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” Osho

Red color

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy. Red pigment made from ochre was one of the first colors used in prehistoric art. The Ancient Egyptians and Mayans colored their faces red in ceremonies; Roman generals had their bodies colored red to celebrate victories. It was also an important color in China, where it was used to color early pottery and later the gates and walls of palaces.: 60–61  In the Renaissance, the brilliant red costumes for the nobility and wealthy were dyed with kermes and cochineal. The 19th century brought the introduction of the first synthetic red dyes, which replaced the traditional dyes. Red became a symbolic color of communism and socialism; Soviet Russia adopted a red flag following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1993. Communist China adopted the red flag following the Chinese Revolution of 1949. It was adopted by North Vietnam in 1954, and by all of Vietnam in 1975. Since red is the color of blood, it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger, and courage. Modern surveys in Europe and the United States show red is also the color most commonly associated with heat, activity, passion, sexuality, anger, love, and joy. In China, India and many other Asian countries it is the color symbolizing happiness and good fortune.

Meditation music, delta waves

Art on the wall

Vintage mandala, canvas print

Vintage mandala canvas print
by DuneTaraArt

Mandala

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.” “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.” “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” “Dance until you shatter yourself.” “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.” “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” Rumi

Cubes, abstract art

Cubes
by DuneTaraArt

Meditation music

Flower photo

“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.” “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” “And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.” “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.” “Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.” “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.” Rumi

Poppies, painting

Mandala art

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.” “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” Rumi

Green color

Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Several minerals have a green color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content. During post-classical and early modern Europe, green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers and the gentry, while red was reserved for the nobility. For this reason, the costume of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci and the benches in the British House of Commons are green while those in the House of Lords are red. It also has a long historical tradition as the color of Ireland and of Gaelic culture. It is the historic color of Islam, representing the lush vegetation of Paradise. It was the color of the banner of Muhammad, and is found in the flags of nearly all Islamic countries. In surveys made in American, European, and Islamic countries, green is the color most commonly associated with nature, life, health, youth, spring, hope, and envy. In the European Union and the United States, green is also sometimes associated with toxicity and poor health, but in China and most of Asia, its associations are very positive, as the symbol of fertility and happiness. Because of its association with nature, it is the color of the environmental movement. Political groups advocating environmental protection and social justice describe themselves as part of the Green movement, some naming themselves Green parties. This has led to similar campaigns in advertising, as companies have sold green, or environmentally friendly, products. Green is also the traditional color of safety and permission; a green light means go ahead, a green card permits permanent residence in the United States.

Natural lines, abstract painting

Natural lines
by DuneTaraArt

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” “If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.” “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” Rumi

Whirl canvas print

Whirl canvas print
by DuneTaraArt

Pop art canvas print

Pop art canvas print
by DuneTaraArt

Blue color

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective. Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eighth century Chinese artists used cobalt blue to colour fine blue and white porcelain. In the Middle Ages, European artists used it in the windows of cathedrals. Europeans wore clothing coloured with the vegetable dye woad until it was replaced by the finer indigo from America. In the 19th century, synthetic blue dyes and pigments gradually replaced organic dyes and mineral pigments. Dark blue became a common colour for military uniforms and later, in the late 20th century, for business suits. Because blue has commonly been associated with harmony, it was chosen as the colour of the flags of the United Nations and the European Union. Surveys in the US and Europe show that blue is the colour most commonly associated with harmony, faithfulness, confidence, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and occasionally with sadness.[4] In US and European public opinion polls it is the most popular colour, chosen by almost half of both men and women as their favourite colour.[5] The same surveys also showed that blue was the colour most associated with the masculine, just ahead of black, and was also the colour most associated with intelligence, knowledge, calm, and concentration.

Meditation music

Vintage art

Mandala art

New mandala