Hello All Artists,

If there is any proof necessary that practicing Zen does not also make one a gifted painter, poet, musician, calligrapher and the like ... I am it. I come from a musical family, and I am tone deaf. My calligraphy after years in Japan still looks like chicken scratchings, and my best paintings were done with my fingers in kindergarten.

That said, we have many many gifted artists, musicians and poets around this Sangha. Check out our Art Circle if you have not done so ....

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...EAF-ART-CIRCLE

Including Kokuu's Haiku Club ...

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...138-Haiku-Club

... and the other poetry thread around hear led by Taishi and others. I would love to see more and more of that.

How do you feel about "Zen and the Arts"? Anything resonate with you in the words of Norman Fischer, who is himself a gifted poet ...

https://www.normanfischer.org/poems

Gassho, J

STLah