Recent Posts Tagged With 'art'

• The Gift: an anthropology of generosity

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 14:08 in art, reviews, book

  The book that I am currently reading is The Gift by Lewis Hyde.  If - like me  - you consider generosity in all her gorgeous dresses to be the true heart of authentic spirituality then I’d say it was pretty much a must read. Most artists are...

• Instinct vs Wisdom

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 17:02 in art, wisdom, reflections, instinct

  Call me old-fashioned but I think that in Dhamma practice wisdom has a very specific meaning - namely seeing things as they are: essentially unsatisfactory, without any lasting qualities and without a fixed centre.  And until it becomes naturalised ...

• The R word

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 14:12 in art, reflections

  Renunciation isn’t a word so widely mentioned in modern spiritual circles, much less the wider culture - but this belies its incredible importance.  It is after all a parami and since today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, a traditiona...