True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

Enlightened mind consists of prajna, or “discriminating awareness,” and karuna, or friendship and kindness.

The whole purpose is to soothe aggression and passion and ignorance.

When we begin to realize how to become warm and to make friends with our world—when that kind of breakthrough takes place—then there is no problem at all in introducing buddhadharma into our art.

The human principle is known as simplicity: freedom from concepts, freedom from trappings.

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

It is simply that you can give yourself space, a gap where you can warm up and cool off all at once. That is ideal.

Art is regarded as a way of life altogether, not necessarily as a trade or business.

Ironically, the words that we have come up with to describe Great Eastern Sun—humbleness and genuineness—are the opposite of chauvinism and aggression. Other qualities associated with Great Eastern Sun are a sense of precision, warmth, kindness, and gentleness.

The general experience is no hope, no fear, and it comes in that particular order: first no hope, then no fear.