True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

And from that, what is known as the four actions take place.

When the masculine principle and the feminine principle are joined together, you have the complete accomplishment of all four karmas—pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and destroying. Everything is accomplished in that way.

The post-art and the actual art experience become one, just as postmeditation and meditation begin to become one.

“first thought best thought” level.

Buddhist symbolism is both unique in its nontheistic approach and very ordinary. Altogether, it is simply our living situation—life and experience, life and experience—very simple and direct.

So in Tibet you can’t have too much of a free hand; whereas in the Zen tradition of China and Japan, often people depict secular art in the language of Zen.

But nobody has realized that from that experience you can cultivate your potential artistic talent, your dharma art visual appreciation, and begin to experience symbolism altogether.

You feel you’ve been cornered, and you have to pounce out in one way or another.

The problem comes from not being able to spend enough time looking at things as they are, directly, properly, clearly. That seems to be one of the basic points in how to view symbolism.

the only possible remedy, according to the traditional approach, is surrendering.