Painting Enlightenment: Healing Meditations on the Art and Science of the Heart Sutra

Painting Enlightenment: Healing Meditations on the Art and Science of the Heart Sutra.
Slide presentation by Dr. Paula Arai. Author of Women Living Zen and Bringing Zen Home
Japanese biologist and visionary artist Iwasaki Tsuneo painted the resonance he discovered between scientific and Buddhist views of reality. Expressing the interdependent impermanent and empty nature of phenomena , he shaped the words of the Heart Sutra--a scripture prized for its concise expression of wisdom and compassion--into imagery drawn from ephemeral beauties of nature, Buddhist cultural life, and microscopic and telescopic wonders.