Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The renowned meditation master and artist Chogyam Trungpa called this type of art �dharma art"--any creative work that springs from an awakened state of mind, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression. Dharma art provides a vehicle to appreciate the nature of the things as they are and express it without any struggle or desire to achieve. A work of dharma art brings out the goodness and dignity of the situation it reflects�dignity that comes from the artist�s interest in the details of life and sense of appreciation for experience. Trungpa shows how the principles of dharma art extend to everyday life: any activity can provide an opportunity to relax and open our senses to the phenomenal world.
An expanded edition of Trungpa's Dharma Art (1996), this book includes a new introduction and essay.

Chogyam Trungpa (1940-1987) - meditation master, scholar, and artist - founded Naropa University, Shambhala Training, and an international association of meditation centers known as Shambhala International. He is the author of many books, including Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

	Contents: True Perception - The Path of Dharma Art
	Acknowledgments	vii
	Editor's Introduction	ix
	Dharma Art - Genuine Art	1
	Discovering Elegance	3
	Great Eastern Sun	8
	Basic Goodness	14
	Meditation	19
	Art in Everyday Life	25
	Ordinary Truth	32
	Empty Gap of Mind	37
	Coloring Our World	44
	New Sight	68
	The Process of Perception	72
	Being and Projecting	76
	Lost Horizons	78
	Giving	82
	Self-Existing Humor	86
	Outrageousness	89
	Wise Fool	94
	Five Styles of Creative Expression	100
	Nobody's World	105
	Choiceless Magic	109
	One Stroke	116
	The Activity of Nonagression	120
	State of Mind	123
	Heaven, Earth, and Human	129
	Endless Richness	133
	Back to Square One	137
	Art Begins at Home	145
	Joining Heaven and Earth	148
	Sources	185
	Resources	187
	Biography	191
	Index	197