Ocean of Dharma by Carolyn Rose Gimian & Carolyn Rose Gimian

Author:Carolyn Rose Gimian & Carolyn Rose Gimian [Gimian, Carolyn Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781590305362
Publisher: Shambhala Publications

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Art and Meditation

NOBODY CAN CREATE a perfect work of art or understand a perfect work of art without understanding the practice of meditation. So the sitting practice of meditation is the basic ground. But what do we mean by the sitting practice of meditation? For instance, Beethoven, El Greco, or my most favorite person in music, Mozart—I think they all sat. They sat in the sense that their minds became blank before they created a work of art. Otherwise, they couldn’t possibly do it. Just coming out of the market and plopping down at the dining room table and writing a play—that’s impossible. Some kind of mindlessness in the Buddhist sense has to take place. From that basic ground, the sense of being, openness, or isness begins to develop.

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