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Three Visions of the Buddha

Published: April 5, 2006, 8:26 p.m.

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The Buddha as lover, as master of enchantments, as a vision of the sky. In this talk, Candradasa presents the story of the Buddha\\u2019s life as a backdrop to three visions of practice, focussing on a progression through love and corresponding to the traditional path of ethics, meditation and wisdom. Myth, dream and archetypal images galore \\xe2\\u20ac\\u201d from Jung and Star Wars to Giacometti and Jean Genet \\xe2\\u20ac\\u201d as well as a healthy dose of sex, magic and death. But finally, we have the Buddha simply as a vision of how to know ourselves more fully and live our lives with a marvellous elegance of being\\u2026

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