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True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
But once we stop rejecting the world, the world begins to pounce on us. Symbolism is imposed on us. Realizations and perceptions of all kinds of realities begin to take shape. There is symbolism right and left and front and back.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
Symbolism is not simply an art-school project—it’s much more serious than that. There is a lot of power behind the whole thing.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
It is jumbled up with a lot of stuff we have collected throughout our life of birth and death, our existence in our world. The question is, if we work with that, could we produce a work of art? Is there any hope that finally the world will be what is desired or dreamed of as a perfect world,
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
We could call that vision “first thought best thought.” When that happens, there is no struggle.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
Such directness is based on training and discipline, being willing to stick with your particular work of art or project until a sense of upliftedness takes place, your dignity develops, and a fresh first thought best thought emerges.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
Threefold logic is an old Buddhist tradition of how to perceive messages from the phenomenal world, how to appreciate a view completely, and how to present your personal view to somebody else as well.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
In threefold logic, first we have the ground, then path, and then fruition.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
That’s called threefold logic, and that kind of logic could be used in designing or producing a work of art. We could describe that as the heaven, earth, and human principle used in the Japanese tradition of flower arranging, or as the three bodies of the tantric art of Tibetan vajrayana Buddhism—dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago
In the Shambhala tradition, we use the terms heaven, earth, and human. We start with the ground, which is heaven.
from True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa
Sean Stevenson added 4mo ago