Art Practice is Dharma Practice

Creative practice - calligraphy, haiku, pottery, ikebana - have been part of Zen for centuries. Chan masters in China used art as a way of teaching the Buddha Dharma and seeing into the true nature of things. Practice Leader Lisa Gakyo Schaewe shares reflections on how art-making in all forms offers a deeply intimate and radically clear mirror into the self and then introduces an art practice session drawing juniper branches.


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