This issue of Gentle Voice is titled ‘Art Unlimited’ and there are a multitude of different forms of art: drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, computer generated art, digital graphics, pop art, minimal art, performance art, street art, indigenous art, architecture, music, dance, film, photography, the art of conversation, the art of seduction and so on…! Types […]
The Artists Role
This issue of Gentle Voice is titled ‘Art Unlimited’ and there are a multitude of different...
Expressing Truth
Dzigar Kontrol Rinpoche “For me, painting is a means to express the truth one discovers through...
Art as Celebration of Unlimited Reality
By Jakob Leschly One of the things we need to remember about Buddhist art, and perhaps sacred art...
DJKR News & Teachings
Feature Articles
SI News
By Arne Schelling Siddharthas Intent Europe has opened a new City Centre in Berlin. It is located in the heart of Berlin and will be a centre for meditation, study, art, translation and other Rime activities. All visitors are whole heartedly welcome. Address: Güntzelstrasse 42, Gardenhouse, 3rd floor, 10789 Berlin, Germany Email: arne.schelling@gmx.de for practice […]
Project Updates
8th May 2012 Dear Sangha members Sincere thanks to all of you who have provided ongoing support and interest in The Siddhartha School (TSS) project and a special big thank you to all those who over the past seven years have donated funds and working hours. It has been a long journey with much enthusiasm, […]
Arts & Media
Dharma meals on wheels
By Tineke Adolphus
KITCHEN WISDOM
Use the utensils of your mind to
Stir the pot of presentness
Mix the dough of mindfulness
Sharpen the knife of awareness
Wash the glass of perceptions
and
Serve from the kitchen of loving - kindness
From One Taste, Vegetarian Home Cooking From Around the World By Sharon Crayton
FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS
Gentle Voice Online Issue 4
ART UNLIMITED
"If we believe in the continuity of mind, then love inconspicuously connects us to the ones we love with continuous positive energy, so that even tangible separations between people who love each other do not reduce the intangible power of love."
Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Hello Everyone,
With the world so full of sad happenings, and in the case of our dear Tibetan brothers and sisters, tragic acts of despair many of us maybe feeling disheartened so as an inspiration here is Art – Unlimited.
This issue has come together with enthusiastic support from Teachers and students around the world. Thank you to all of you who have contributed both outwardly and inwardly.
May we all have an extraordinary Year of the Water Dragon with abundant displays of harmony, virtue, longevity and peace.
Pamela Croci – Editor
Sarah Mist – Production Designer
Sarasvati
Sarasvati, Deer Park Photo Noa Jones
SŔĪ SARASVATI STOTRAM.
Hymn to Shri Sarasvati.
YĀ KUNDEN DUTU SARĀH ADHA VALĀ
Your manifestations thoroughly destroy the afflictions like the scent of the jasmine flower,
YĀ SUBHRA VASTRĀ VRTĀ
your appearance radiantly beautiful, shining protector
YĀ VINĀ VARA DANDA MANDIT AKARĀ
sublimely playing a beautifully adorned vina,
YĀ SVETA PADM ĀSANĀ
your body brilliant white, seated in lotus asana.
YĀ BRAHMĀ ĆYUTA SANKARA
Your sacred resonance streams forth as auspicious
PRABHRTIR DEVAI SADĀ VANDITĀ
offerings and praises to the devas, a celebratory proclamation of purity.
SĀMĀM PĀTU SARASVATI BHAGAVATÃ NIH SESA JĀDYĀ PAHĀ
Sovereign Bhagavati Sarasvati, entirely dispelling, without remainder, any lack of discernment.
SARASVATI MAHĀ BHĀGE VIDYE KAMALA LOĆANE
I offer this hymn of praise to Sarasvati, the mighty patron of knowledge, the lotus eyed one,
VIDYA RPE VISĀ LĀKSHI VIDYĀM DEHI NAMO STUTE
wisdom taking form, distinguished queen, the very embodiment of awareness.
Happy Year of the Water Dragon
Waterdragon By Yeachin Tsai
Recent Posts
- Update on the Siddhartha School
- Vajradhara Gompa
- Cafe Conversation
- The Artists Role
- Expressing Truth
- Dissolving the External Display
- Authentic Study
- Art as Celebration of Unlimited Reality
- Of Courtesan Songs and Sanskrit Sutras
- Engaging Sarasvati
- It Takes Two
- Immateriality – intention as Art
- Chipping Away
- The Meditative Art of Integration
- Creating a Space of Love
- As it comes
- Siddhartha’s Intent Europe
- SI Australia Vipashyana Retreat
- Art Action – Community Creativity and Concern
- What’s up at DPI
- LIVE TOUR of 84000 Reading Room
- The Siddhartha School update
- Be Inspired
- Good Eye
- Finding Manjushri
- A Painting Life
- Conversation with Ang Tsherin Sherpa
- My Master is like the sky
- Inspiring Story
- Brigette Reisz – Malerei
- Agua Luna – Series I
- Anything that helps still the mind
- Art Links
Next Issues
ISSUE 5:
The Getting of Wisdom - Education
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ISSUE 6
Living and Dying Well
to live like a beautiful summer blossom,
to die like a beautiful autumn moon
Rabindranath Tagore
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