Tag: art and the Dharma

New Podcast: Portraits of Samadhi

By Candradasa on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:38

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Samādhi is the Sanskrit word for a state of peaceful, integrated absorption the mind can reach through meditation.

And people’s faces in meditation have been a source of fascination (and distraction) for documentary filmmaker Hartley Woolf since he began his own Buddhist practice. “I can’t help but enjoy taking in all the different expressions around me in the shrine room,” he says, “and wondering what’s going on inside the mind behind.”

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New Podcast: The Intimacy of Art and the Dharma

By Candradasa on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:05

Today we meet three Buddhists with a full time professional painting practice, exhibiting at The Art Pavilion in Mile End Eco Park. And we’re treated to a generous and intimate conversation about the tensions and creative dynamics between an explicitly artistic life and an implicitly spiritual, even religious one. All in context of shared joy at exhibiting openly as Buddhists in a beautiful space surrounded by and inflected with nature.

We explore the relationship between the values of Buddhism and...