Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Wabi-sabi and the Three Doorways to Freedom with Vajradarshini

By dayaketu on Sat, 4 Oct, 2025 - 17:02

Wabi-sabi and the Three Doorways to Freedom with Vajradarshini

By dayaketu on Sat, 4 Oct, 2025 - 17:02

Wabi-sabi and the 3 Doorways to Freedom with Vajradarshini
A meditation and reflection home retreat
21-25 November

Reserve your place here

The Buddha taught that there are three doorways to freedom. These doorways open when we turn towards our experiences of impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering. Known as the lakshanas—the marks of conditioned existence—they can seem uninviting. After all, who wants to look closely at the more painful aspects of life?

Back in the 90s, Vajradarshini came across Leonard Koren’s Wabi-sabi for Artists,...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Beauty and Environmental Action (The Dharma Toolkit Podcast, Episode 41)

By Centre Team on Sat, 17 Jul, 2021 - 17:05

Join us for a deep dive into the relationship between art, aesthetics, the environment, and the inner life of people, objects and houses! In this episode we discuss the current ecological and biodiversity crises with an artist and a poet, asking how an appreciation and fuller understanding of beauty itself can help us take action in our own lives.

Be prepared to have your notions of “the beautiful” challenged and, hopefully, also affirmed as we range with our guests Padmacandra and Vilokini...