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Putting Art-Making Back on the Map III: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS

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Erica Pittman
2017

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We’re offering a final series of three presentations from the BCBS Spring 2016 Dharma and Arts Symposium this month. You can find other presentations in the April and May issues of Insight Journal

Practicing Art, Practicing Ethics, Practicing Dharma

Our final three presentations all combine personal narratives of practice, creative expression, and artistic development.

Ruth Ozeki’s “Dharma, Ethics and Art” explores the relationship between fiction-writing and Buddhist ethics by opening with a reading from her book A Tale for the Time Being. Starting from the admission that fiction writing can itself be interpreted as a vocation of “telling lies”, Ozeki discusses her experience of writing novels as a practice of ethical inquiry. Adopting Zen practices of atonement and repentance as an ethical foundation, she reframes fiction writing as a way of responding to remorse.

In their combined presentations, Rosalyn Driscoll and Roshi Pat O’Hara each discuss their personal experiences of the relationship between dharma and art through an autobiographical exploration of histories of practice, art, and poetry-making. O’Hara articulates her interest in exploring artistic practice through Buddhist practice by way of the question: “What kind of mind makes this?”, eventually moving on to an integrated understanding of art as both support for and realization of practice.

Rosalyn Driscoll’s presentation focuses on perception as a meaningful dimension of the intersection of art and dharma practice. In particular, she traces an interest in embodiment inspired by her meditation practice from a place of wanting to learn to inhabit the body and feel sensations, rather than rely on the visual field, to a contemporary understanding of the inseparability of the tactile and the visual.

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Insight Journal

2017

In this volume:

What About Neutral Feelings?

By Bhikkhu Anālayo

Article

2017 Vedana Conference

By Mu Soeng

Article

Putting Art-Making Back on the Map III: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS

By Erica Pittman

Article

Putting Art-Making Back on the Map II: Dharma and Art Symposium at BCBS

By Erica Pittman

Article

Putting Art-Making Back on the Map I: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS

By Erica Pittman

Article

Death Contemplation

By Bhikkhu Anālayo

Interview

The Nibbāna Interview

By Bhikkhu Anālayo

Interview

Diversity Assumptions, Implicit Values, and Seeking Refuge

By Lynette Monteiro

Interview

 

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  • About Us
    • New and Notable
    • COVID-19 Safety Protocols
    • Mission and Values
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Board of Directors
    • IMS
    • Staff
    • Job Openings
    • Getting to BCBS
    • Mailing List
    • Contact Us
  • Onsite Programs
    • Current Course Calendar
    • Everything You Need to Know About Residential Programs
    • Typical Residential Schedule
    • Continuing Education Credits
    • Financial Assistance
    • Teacher Dāna
  • Online Programs
    • Upcoming Programs
    • Wisdom Collaborations
    • Previously Offered Programs
    • Cancellation Policy
  • Path Programs
  • Teaching Faculty
  • Resources
    • Insight Journal
    • Bhikkhu Anālayo’s Offerings
    • The Daily Sit
    • Freely Offered Dharma
      • Events
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    • BCBS Publishing
    • BCBS Bookstore
    • Access to Insight
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