The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation by Sangharakshita

Author:Sangharakshita [Sangharakshita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Windhorse Publications Ltd
Published: 2012-12-08T19:57:53+00:00

Q: It’s very hard to appreciate something aesthetically when there is desire or craving there, I find. It’s very hard to see something higher, because the object of your craving is much more tangible.

S: Of course, it doesn’t help when the work of art itself is concerned with the presentation of some of those very sensuous objects that you are trying to get away from. But nonetheless I suggest that a more refined, a more intense aesthetic appreciation could be considered as the positive counterpart of kāmacchanda, and therefore to be cultivated as the remedy or antidote. I am not satisfied that it is an opposite in the full sense, but I think it comes somewhat near it.

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