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Shakespeare, Art and Dhamma | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
Today, one of the visitors is a professor who is an expert on Shakespeare. He and Ajahn Dhammasiha engage in an interesting discussion about art, beauty and it's relationship to Dhamma practice as a Buddhist monk.
Can a Buddhist monk still enjoy beauty, or would that conflict with the aim of abandoning all attachments?
Does art always celebrates beauty, and present the world as something good and enjoyable?
Ajahn shares that his favourite works of art have always been those that induce a sense of 'nibbidā' (disenchantment) and 'semvega' (spiritual shock/urgency). Art that is not just…
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