Via Daily Dharma

Enlivening the Ordinary | March 30, 2014 Through art, a painter can make the ordinary come alive. As Zen students, we try to bring this kind of relevance into each moment of our lives, into this one moment that contains all moments. In this way, we allow the ordinary to enliven us. Sometimes this is successful, sometimes not, but the work itself goes on. Persistence is one of the major virtues in both the artist and the unenlightened. —Gary Thorp, "The Dust Beyond the Cushion"