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Jun 25, 2024
" “The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example - the aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”" --Andrei Tarkovsky
Painting in the Dharma
In 1969, Rosalyn White moved from Washington D.C. to attend the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. "I was like a kid in a candy store!" she says. The hippie revolution was still in bloom and she discovered a place in Berkeley, Calif. called the Nyingma Meditation Center. That's where she met Tarthang Tulku. Little did she know how her art journey was to change. For over forty years, Rosalyn White has followed a road less taken, especially in the Western art world. Instead of the dream of exhibits in the best galleries, sales and praise, White has a deeper and more lasting goal, the entry into what, in Buddhism, is sometimes called "Pure Land." A life transformed in ways beyond words.
BE THE CHANGE
Approach you daily work with intentionality, recognizing it as an opportunity to search for your inner, spiritual world. Whether you paint, write or work with a craft, can you let it be a search for inner peace and external connection?
