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True perception : the path of dharma art / Chögyam Trungpa ; edited by Judith L. Lief.

by Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939-1987.

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Shambhala, c2008.

294.3437 T871tp

Buddhism and the arts.

9781590305881 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1590305884 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xxi, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Rev. ed. of: Dharma art. Boston : Shambhala, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Dharma Art - Genuine Art -- Discovering Elegance -- Great Eastern Sun -- Basic Goodness -- Meditation -- Art in Everyday Life -- Ordinary Truth -- Empty Gap of Mind -- Coloring Our World -- New Sight -- Process of Perception -- Being and Projecting -- Lost Horizons -- Giving -- Self-Existing Humor -- Outrageousness -- Wise Fool -- Five Styles of Creative Expression -- Nobody's World -- Choiceless Magic -- One Stroke -- Activity of Nonaggression -- State of Mind -- Heaven, Earth, and Human -- Endless Richness -- Back to Square One -- Art Begins at Home -- Joining Heaven and Earth.

Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The renowned meditation master and artist Chogyam Trungpa called this type of art "dharma art" - any creative work that springs from an awakened state of mind, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression. Dharma art provides a vehicle to appreciate the nature of things as they are and express it without any struggle or desire to achieve. A work of dharma art brings out the goodness and dignity of the situation it reflects - dignity that comes from the artist's interest in the details of life and sense of appreciation for experience. Trungpa shows how the principles of dharma art extend to everyday life: any activity can provide an opportunity to relax and open our senses to the phenomenal world.

Lief, Judith L.

Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939-1987. Dharma art.

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