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beauty, Liveliness, wisdom
Contemplative arts
Contemplative arts bring beauty, Liveliness and wisdom in our lives and our surroundings. You can help us, our world as it is to appreciate and to experience it more directly and more lively. This “direct perception” And spontaneous creativity is accessible to everyone. We are opening up aspects of awareness, that we often disregard or ignore in everyday life.
All arts can include an contemplative approach, including design, Music, Dance and poetry.
We do not offer any programs for contemplative art in Zurich, But see below for events in Europe. (Wien Has a strong offer)
Bring flowers to life
Ikebana
Ikebana is a meditative way, To develop mindfulness and elegance. For this reason, the process of flowering is just as important as the result. As with the other traditional contemplative arts, the mindset is the decisive factor.
More about Ikebana
Extract from a text by Chögyam Trungpa
It looks like this, that the whole principle is based on it, To create space, And at the same time the arrangement can be cheeky and noticeable. So you shouldn't be too tentative and not too fascinated by the little beauty, that is in the branch.
This particular style of flower arrangement, Ikebana, Comes from the Sachetso School. The Japanese Sotetso School not only attaches importance to it, To arrange flowers, but also on it, To form and create an environment from many things.
My meeting with my teacher in England caused an incredible shock and a surprise, namely, that with Ikebana such a new dimension of reality offers itself. The first time, When I saw a flower arrangement, was very amazed at it, what dignity and reality can express themselves through this special arrangement. There is beauty and cruelty. Maybe there is an invitation, enticement, And in fact the whole thing is like the Buddhist teachings. It is therefore not just a work of art. It is an appearance of reality, The easier, but very far -spacious form offers. Ikebana practice teaches, As you concern your life. It requires a lot of mindfulness, Non-aggression and no stress.
discipline
If you don't have a little discipline in your state of mind, Then you create confusion than order. That does not necessarily mean, that people, Study the Ikebana, have to sit and meditate. But they could Shamatha-Vipassyana principles during their exercises, in their work, use. If you do that, You start, Chaos, boredom, Inadequacy and everything else to notice. Then you start, to develop a sense of humor.
It's about, that every arrangement is a victorious quality, must have a spacious quality. And the flowers, If I may say so, Shouldn't stare at you, but should be arranged as they have grown.
Contemplative Photographs
Miksang
Miksang means “good eye”. By exercising clear vision, in the, What is fundamental, Become the magic and freshness of everyday life (again) currently.
More about Miksang
The idea: to capture the "magic of everyday life" with the camera. Photos, The ideas that are made without prefabricated ideas, Without the desire for a "good" photo. Clear, value the unique moment and map.
The contemplative approach to photography is based on the apprenticeship about Shambhala and Dharmakunst of the meditation master, Artist and scholar Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, especially at his apprenticeship about the art of perception.
Reinforce the awareness of space
Mudra rudding
Through the Mudra you learn, to rely on this room as a source of creativity. Woman or man develops absolutely confidence in the benevolence and the accuracy of the room.
MUDRA Room-in intersection of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche based on his own training as a lama dancer developed.
It's a method, To body, Speech and awareness to reconcile so that true present can be developed. By working with postures, We learn noise and movement, To be fearless and sincerely shared us.
More about Mudra Rooms in Room
How we perceive the space around ourselves, is influenced by our idea. The room around us appears inviting and benevolent, we will rather relax. If the room seems repellent and threatening to us, Let's tense ourselves.
MUDRA space is a method, To body, To reconcile the feeling and awareness of the room. We develop trust, in every - really every - situation to be fearless and completely there. The practice consists of unique exercises in different postures, With sensory perceptions, Language and movement.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche developed Mudra spatial awareness as an contemplative practice for the Mudra theater group at the Naropa Institute in Boulder. The exercises are based on Trungpa Rinpoche's training in Tibetan monastery dance. The basic idea is, that theater and everyday life do not differ from each other. What role you like - there is always the possibility, Explan precision and openness.
First of all, we have to become aware of ourselves, that we are caught in our thought. This is by no means easy - we have an extremely complicated life. We are busy, To want to get better. We want to get rid of blockages from the past to be able to express our true self. We are busy eating, Good to drink, work hard, a lot to work,…..busy, busy, busy. In order to become aware of the room we have to be careful what we are.
The five Buddhaf families
Maitri space awareness
Die 5 Buddhaf families offer an unusual approach to understanding personalities and their surroundings. Each of these families or energies stands for another aspect of our originally clear consciousness.
These energies are experienced by working with certain postures and colors. The interaction of everyone 5 We become aware of energies in the full range, We no longer only identify with our usual behavioral patterns, which unnecessarily restrict our relationship with ourselves and our surroundings. Instead, we expand our perception, learn to understand us and others better and to deal more openly with situations.
More about Maitri
In Maitri room awareness you can be this 5 Experience energies through working with certain postures and colors. The interaction of everyone 5 We become aware of energies in the full range, And we no longer only identify with our usual behavioral patterns, which unnecessarily restrict our relationship with ourselves and our surroundings. Instead, we expand our perception, learn to understand us and others better and to deal more openly with situations.
Mindfulness on that, What happens to us at the present moment and meditation play a key role. We learn, to open us with gentleness of our experience and that, What we are right now, to accept without reservation: Maitri, unconditional friendliness, arises in us, When we learn, to relax into the game of our energies and to experience every situation as a challenge.
Maitri room spare was developed together by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. It is offered as a further training for contemplative psychotherapy and art as well as as an in -depth meditation practice and is suitable for beginners and advanced users.
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