
Zen with a Brush: A Zen Approach to Creativity
The teacher gives me four simple words to carry in my heart while allowing my brush to manifest before any thoughts emerge: “Just be present,

The teacher gives me four simple words to carry in my heart while allowing my brush to manifest before any thoughts emerge: “Just be present,

“Painting is my life’s inspiration. Through the act of being with an empty canvas. . . the fullness of infinite possibility . . .. .

Los Angeles-based Indian artist Kruti Shah creates imagery that celebrates the exquisite details and patterns of our natural world and the many powerful symbols that


“It is so magical, it is so wondrous, this meeting, as in a dream—”** I met artist Fiorenza Menini during late summer 2014. After visiting

What are those beings that appear to us like thunder—suddenly, unexpectedly, intense, frightening, shaking our souls and penetrating the thin skin of our minds? I

Buddhist expression in sound and beauty

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Miya Ando’s painting Yugen Gold Blue is a Zen koan of sorts. The nocturnal seascape, lit by the hazy glow of a rising moon, is at once a portrait

Spirit is without name, without form. Spirit does not occupy a specific place, but is everywhere at the same time. Spirit is beyond of the

A fuzzy-furred gibbon seated on a rugged boulder reaches an arm out over a rushing river and tries to scoop up the reflection of the