Greetings to all,

Here is where you’ll find works authored by the lineage masters, teachers and students of the Engaged Dharma Insight Group.  Occasionally we run across interesting items that we’ll post here by other sources.  Some will be for sale, some will be for free, and for some we’ll ask donations.  All funds received from these items will be used to further our teaching outreach.  If interested send us an email with your interest at engageddharma.ig@gmail.com

Books, Buddhas, mala beads, pamphlets, art and more.

Check it all out.  More will be added as they arise.

 

WEB —  Original multi-media outsider art by Wayne Ren-Cheng.  Proceeds from the sale of this piece will go toward a new laptop so that my teaching can continue on Second Life, at the Buddha Center.  The old MAC doesn’t have the system requirements to meet those of the Second Life portals.

Email me at engageddharma.ig@gmail.com for more pics and information.

It is 29″ x 25″, and constructed from ‘found’ items.  It is signed and dated.  COST:  $350 (Buyer to pay shipping costs depending on location and choice of mode of shipping.

 

Art is causally conditioned phenomena. The artist – painter, sculptor, writer, musician, dancer – is at the mercy of causality – causality is their muse.

What possessed me to buy old Scrabble games at yard sales, estate sales and junk shops?

What possessed me to haul home from a dumpster the battered lid to a wooden shipping crate?

What possessed me to hold on to a faded and scratched stereograph card image of the Kamakura Buddha from the early part of the Twentieth century?

What possessed me to buy a Tibetan craved yak bone mala, put it in a drawer for years?

What possessed me to hold on to two Buddhist themed pinback buttons?

The Web of Interdependence print I created as a Christmas gift for Venerable David was the ‘muse’ of casual conditioning that brought these things, empty as they were, to attain a form.

WEB, the resulting mixed-media art piece is a product of causal conditioning.

 

More about Pragmatic Buddhism: Reflecting Contemporary Vitality

More about Encompassing Directions: A Contemporary Commentary on the Sigalovada Sutra.

The Parting Of The Way: Lao Tzu and the Taoist Movement by Holmes Welch.  This first addition hard cover book printed in 1957 is still in print.  This is a rare addition with dust cover in good condition.  The dust cover shown some wear along the edges.  The spine is in excellent condition with clean pages.  Holmes Welch is the first Western master in our EDIG lineage.  $50

Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit by Robert E. Kennedy.  A paperback book reprinted in 1999.  In good condition.  A few marks along the edge in pincle, but otherwise very clean.  $6