Art and everyday life
Photo: Zsolt Zsoló Kóté
The art of meditative experience might be called genuine art. Such art is not designed for exhibition or broadcast. Instead, it is a perpetually growing process in which we begin to appreciate our surroundings in life, whatever they may be—it doesn’t necessarily have to be good, beautiful, and pleasurable at all. The definition of art, from this point of view, is to be able to see the uniqueness of everyday experience. Every moment we might be doing the same things—brushing our teeth every day, combing our hair every day, cooking our dinner every day. But that seeming repetitivenes becomes unique every day. A kind of intimacy takes place with the daily habits that you go through and the art involved in it. That’s why it is called art in everyday life. (Chögyam Trungpa)
This encounter on “Art and everyday life” will be led by Alice Haspray, senior teacher (shastri) in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. Alice Haspray has been practicing meditation since 1967. She began as a student of Zen Buddhism with Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind). After Suzuki Roshi’s death in 1971 she became a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, studying closely with him until his death in 1987. She has served as co-director of Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado, Buddhist teacher-in-residence in New York, and coordinator of the U.S.-Japan Relations Program at Harvard University. Alice has been teaching about meditation in North America and in Chile, Brazil, and Spain.
“Art and everyday life”, with Alice Haspray
Date: July 24, Sunday (new date)
Time: 7PM GMT (click here to convert to your time zone)
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