20-Morty Breier
USA

YIN-YANG (THE PLAY OF OPPOSITES)

As a spark of the Creator, I too create the universe out of nothing, no-thing.

To do that, I make polar equalities on both sides of zero, no-thing, the ground of my consciousness, equal amounts of light and dark, good and bad, joy and sorrow, attraction and aversion. Surrounding myself with these opposites, I create the world. This fundamental world-view is represented both by the YIN-YANG symbol and by the Mandala itself. I've honored this confluence by creating an energetic illumination of this wonderful icon, a centering logo for many of my meditations.

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I live with my silver haired wife, Karen, in a dome home on the western slope of Hualalai Mountain. Hualalai is on the Kona coast of the big island of Hawaii, and, surrounded by the natural beauty of this tropical paradise, looks out over the Pacific toward the orient and the setting sun.

Born in 1934, I grew up in New York City. I received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from New York's City College, and, during the fifties, honored the scientist's skeptical approach to truth.

I came to my spiritual journey through mind expanding drugs during the sixties and later through Zen, Gurjieff and Lao-Tsu. I lived my married with children life in Greenwich Connecticut where I founded and headed up an international firm of consulting engineers.

Much of my work then was for Pacific rim nations and I travelled often to the Orient. I have three mature and successful children living on the mainland. My life in New England broke up in the late eighties. At age 55 I sold everything, split the proceeds with my ex-wife and moved to Hawaii. Soon after arriving, I spent a year in a Hindu ashram practicing devotional yoga.

I'm presently a member of the board of both Congregation Kona Beth Shalom and West Hawaii's New Thought Center. I sit meditation with a Zen Sensai and I lead a discussion group called The Cutting Edge Symposium. As a conga drummer I often sit in with local jazz groups. Karen and I run an orchard with 450 lime trees on our 3 acre Hawaiian property.

My art work combines the most primitive with the most sophisticated techniques. My latest book, Masks, Mandalas andMeditations, has pen and ink drawings, many of them felt-tip marker on cocktail napkins. I also use an AutoCAD program to compose highly detailed full color mandala images that are then drawn in large scale by an HP Plotter. My artwork has been shown in a number of Connecticut and Kona galleries. My writings have taken inspiration from my quiet, loving wife Karen, from many of my dear friends who have graciously allowed me my passion for discussion and ideas and from spiritual teachers of all faiths, face to face and in the written word.

My epic poem "Aleph-Zero", published in England in 1973, my 1996 book "Masks, Mandalas and Meditations", my poetry, my taped talks, and my Mandala artwork are all available through my website www.innerjourneys.net.

I welcome e-mail correspondence and can be contacted at: MORTY@ALOHA.NET. My mailing address is: MORTY BREIER, 73-4548 Mahi St., Kailua-Kona HI, 96740.