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Space for Mind

Space for Mind, Space for Art

From 28th of May to 3rd June 2012, an exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist Art entitled ‘Space for Mind, Space for Art: treasures of Tibetan Buddhism, and contemporary responses’ will be hosted by Diamond Way Buddhism in Lambeth. (The Spring Project, 100 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5EL)

Together with the extraordinary Tibetan Buddhist Art exhibition, a collection of contemporary art from both the local community and a national collection will be displayed, offering local artists from the area of Lambeth an opportunity to be have their artwork displayed alongside pieces of national importance.

Daily guided tours will acquaint visitors with the significance of the exhibits, which are not only beautiful artefacts, but have significance and practical use in the development of positive personal – and beyond-personal – qualities through meditation.

Lectures by experts in the field of Tibetology and Tibetan Buddhist Art will provide invaluable insights into fascinating fields as diverse as consciousness between lives and Buddhist Symbolism. We are also honoured to host Lama Jampa Thaye, who will give an address during the private view.

Any profits from the event will go to The Spring Project, a social enterprise that provides employment training for young people, and Diamond Way Buddhism UK, a registered charity that provides authentic Tibetan meditation to the public.

We are very grateful to the British Council, for the generous loan of ten pieces of contemporary art from the British Council Collection.

This will be the most significant exhibition combining contemporary art with the art of Tibetan Buddhism in Lambeth in recent years, and we do hope you can join us.

 

Stillness in Movemnt

This workshop date has been changed from Sunday 3rd June to Saturday 2nd June

http://www.welltemperedmusician.com/index.php?q=stillness-in-movement.html

 

Full Steam

(Received from a friend)

David Gray said of this track in publicity materials: "It's a song with quite dark sentiments. I see it as a broad political thing, I think of the line from TS Eliot, 'a patient etherised upon a table', that's the state we're in as a collective mass. We're just sedated, talking s--t. We're so disconnected from the guts of life most of the time."

David Grays single ‘Full Steam’, a duet with Annie Lennox.  All proceeds from the sale of this single will go to Children In Need.

Here you can watch the official video for the song.

David Gray - Full Steam Lyrics featuring Annie Lennox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEUjWO4KV4s

All our lives we’ve dreamed about it
Just to find that it was never real
This sure ain’t no great Valhalla
Coming closer each turn of the wheel
Forlorn, adrift on seas of beige
In this our Golden Age

Even in our darkest hour
Never thought that it could get so bad
Bullied, suckered, pimped and patronised
Every day your tawdry little lives
So loose your head
And step within
The silence deafening

Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming but still
Running full steam ahead

In and out of consciousness
It breaks my heart to see you like this
Crying, wringing hands and cursing fate
Always so little far too late
It’s 3am I’m wide awake
There’s still one call to make

Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it

Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
But still running full steam
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming but still
Running full steam
Now you
And I
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Now you
And I
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it

 

We are What we Wear: Kathakali

We are What we Wear: Kathakali

Information

• What:
  Special Events
• When:
  Sun 13 May 2012 10:30
• Where:
  Sackler Centre

SPECIAL EVENT: Find out about Kathakali, a male classical dance drama that originated in the temples of Kerala, South India.

Watch the fascinating application of the dancer's make-up, a demonstration of Kathakali gesture techniques and a performance that tells an epic Hindu story.

 

 

Victoria and Albert Museum London UK

 

Life and Death - I wont turn ten

You may wish to put aside some time and listen to some interviews with Maurice Sendak.

"You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson — she’s probably the top — Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life."

Maurice Sendax 1928–2012 

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152248901/fresh-air-remembers-author-maurice-sendak

Storytelling at the Crick Crack Club

 A LOVE LIKE SALT

8th MAY 2012   7:30pm

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University 

Box Office: 01970 623 232 orwww.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk

11th MAY 2012   7:30pm  

Rich Mix, London E1
(Shoreditch High Street/Liverpool Street stations)

Box Office: 020 7613 7498  or www.richmix.org.uk 

A woman's resolve to love an absent husband is put to the test; a desperate man surrenders his soul to satisfy his desire, and a knight embarks on a year-long quest to find out what it is that women really want.  

 

With their distinctive blend of storytelling, haunting music and driving rhythms, The Devil's Violin Company weave a powerful and mysterious spell.

 

Performance storyteller Daniel Morden untangles half forgotten tales that have gripped us for hundreds of years. Full of passion, longing and danger, these are stories of lust and obsession; bargains and betrayals, and of life and death. They also happen to be the tales that inspired Shakespeare to write King Lear, and which can be found deep within Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.  

http://www.crickcrackclub.com/

What Do We Need?

Film Recommended

Living Prayer in Christianity

http://www.templegallery.com/living_prayer.htm

 

Something Understood BBC 4 

No You Can’t Always Get What You Want

[chorus]

I saw her today at a reception

A glass of wine in her hand

I knew she would meet her connection

At her feet was her footloose man

 

No, you can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

And if you try sometime you find

You get what you need[1]

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d23tn

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1968. First released on Let It Bleed 1968 

 

The Unresolved

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017lbcx

Broken in pieces all asunder,

Lord, hunt me not,

A thing forgot,

Once a poor creature, now a wonder,

A wonder tortured in the space

Betwixt this world and that of grace.

 

My thoughts are all a case of knives,

Wounding my heart

With scattered smart;

As wat’ring-pots give flowers their lives.

Nothing their fury can control,

While they do wound and prick my soul.

 

All my attendants are at strife

Quitting their place

Unto my face:

Nothing performs the task of life:

The elements are let loose to fight,

And while I live, try out their right.

 

Oh help, my God! let not their plot

Kill them and me,

And also Thee,

Who art my life: dissolve the knot,

As the sun scatters by his light

All the rebellions of the night.

 

Then shall those powers which work for grief,

Enter Thy pay,

And day by day

Labour Thy praise and my relief:

With care and courage building me, Till I reach heav’n, and much more, Thee.

 

George Herbert: Affliction (IV) 1633

Walk to Heaven Backwards

And we shall succeed not in spite of but through our failures: 

We advance to the truth by experience of error; we succeed through failures. We know not how to do right except by having done wrong. . . . We know what is right, not positively, but negatively--we do not see the truth at once and make towards it, but we fall upon and try error, and find it is not the truth. We grope about by touch, not by sight, and so by a miserable experience exhaust the possible modes of acting until nought is left, but truth, remaining. Such is the process by which we succeed; we walk to heaven backward.

John Henry Newman 1801-1890

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Something Understood

Some Workshop Dates

"Nothing real can come into play unless the three forces (affirming, denying, reconciling) are at play.” Mr Patrick Macdonald.

If you are not orientated upwards, where are you going? This vital direction we forget again and again. Henry Corbin puts it very well in The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism:[1]

“A presence lacking a vertical dimension is reduced to seeking the meaning of history by arbitrarily imposing the terms of reference, powerless to grasp forms in the upward direction, powerless to sense the motionless upward impulse of the pointed arch, but expert at superimposing absurd parallelepipeds.”

If properly utilized, the Alexander Technique has in practice the ability to enable the body to fall upwards toward the ever-becoming arc of the trinity: affirming, denying, reconciling. The Gothic or Islamic arch, as I discovered one day in the “light beautiful” of Lincoln Cathedral, is not stationary; it is symbolic in stone of the "motionless upward impulse". This evolutionary impulse invites response, allowing a current to flow downwards in creative motion. There are hints here of Faraday's movement, magnetism and electricity, which he saw as a reflection of the Trinity.[2] Both the evolutionary and creative motions are essential; without them there cannot be a coming into being of a third force, contrary to illusory appearances.

Join us to explore the currents through the spine in such placements as the lunge, up on to the toes, up into the chair, the place of best mechanical advantage...

It may take lifetimes (if there be such a thing) to learn the five fundamental principles of the Alexander Technique.[3] However, one can take a step that is as profound as it is fundamental; that is, to align upwards, direct upwards, and–without denying the down–move upwards. If you go up, you help others to open and go up.

 

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[1] Henry Corbin The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Corbin

[2] Michael Faraday was a Sandamenian and this influence shaped his view of the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasite

[3] The five fundamental principles are,

Recognition of the force of habit

Recognition of the force of habit

Inhibition and non-doing

Recognition of faulty sensory awareness

Sending Directions

The Primary Control

Patrick Macdonald The Alexander Technique AS I See It

 

http://www.welltemperedmusician.com/index.php?q=simple-moves.html

Workshop Dates:

Sunday 16th October 2011

Sunday 18th March  2012

 Sunday 6th May    2012

Sunday 3rd June   2012

Venue: Studio One, London, UK