29: Abhaya On Beauty and The Imagination as Ways to Liberation
Buddhist Voices
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The Importance of Art to the Spiritual Life
Amanda Banti talks in wisdom beyond words about Bodhisattva arranging all their experience as a mandala. It's a kind of integration, isn't it? So what I'm hearing you say when you're talking about that experience of painting, and then having that mysterious sense of something's happened then you're integrating in a way a bigger sense of who you are. That's a way way of looking at it. Anyway, it's very satisfying your experience. And I do feel it's not just fizzling about the paints, which is enjoyable. ...It's a nice hobby, so to speak, but it's notjust a hobby for me. The whole
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