The Magic Mirror: The Gateway To Pure Vision

The Magic Mirror is a creative process transmission that Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche taught his Dharma Art student Jack Niland in the very first months of Rinpoche’s life in the United States. In a sense, it is a transmission that demonstrates the essence of the creative mind, the source of the artist’s visionary power to manifest reality. The material presented in this program was given to Jack’s Dharma Art protege Andrew Forbes, and with the assistance of Shambhala Art teacher Anjie Cho, it is being shared in this format for the first time. Jack Niland credits the practice of the Magic Mirror as the basis of all Dharma Art, the essential transmission of joining Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, and the source of Trungpa Rinpoche’s incredible power to create his world of Vajradhatu and the manifest the vision of Shambhala in such a short time.

This weekend program will explore and establish the foundation of the Dharma Art teachings. It will be a forum to interpret the teachings based on the student’s personal medium, allowing the teachings to integrate into experiential understanding. Mediums of visual arts, creative writing, music, and design will be explored while diving deep into the practice of meditation.