True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

On a larger level, dharma art is connected with the idea of how to clean up setting-sun vision [the small world of aggression, passion, and ignorance] and transform it into what is known as Great Eastern Sun vision.

that their minds became blank

Then we have the third category, or Sun. Sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest.

to get away from his media, which includes his life situation. And for that matter, meditators, who are also artists, should not get away from their media: their passion, aggression, and ignorance—

But there seems to be a need for two further types of energy—the energy of nonaggression and the energy of outrageousness.

it is just basic space in which you have no idea what it is going to do or what you are going to do about it or put into it. This initial fear of inadequacy may be regarded as heaven, basic space, complete space.

On the whole we begin to feel that we are not cheating anybody; we are not making anything up on the spot. We begin to feel that we are fully genuine.

That sense of suspension is the ground, according to the non-reference-point view of how to perceive absolute symbolism. That experience of suspension is the canvas or the blackboard where you paint your pictures, your symbolism. It

I would like to encourage everybody to practice meditation so we can actually see and look more. If we don’t understand ourselves, it will be very difficult to appreciate anything else that goes on in our world. And on the whole, please cheer up. Don’t analyze too much.