2022 Archive: Enso & Meditation Workshop with Tashi Mannox

2022 Archive: Sunday 13th March 1:30–3:30pm

Sunday 13th March
1:30–3:30pm
£35 / £30 early bird

Enso – Join Dharma-artist Tashi Mannox to explore the meditative approach to creativity.

The traditional art of creating a circular enso ink painting, for a Japanese Zen practitioner, is as much about present awareness, as it is less concerned with end result of the artwork. The act itself is a meditative ceremony of mindfulness and respect.

Creating an enso is an exercise of meditation, chosen because its straightforward simplicity is beyond any need to learn the complexities of a foreign language such as Japanese or Tibetan. It is a pure and simple one stroke mark which illustrate newness – that naked state of mind with nowhere to hide, as once the brush strikes the paper there is no turning back, one is committed to follow through, with the quality of ones mind evident within the circular made mark.

Learn with Tashi to wield the ink loaded brush with an inhabited and relaxed open, yet disciplined state of mind, is the practice. With an attitude of non-expectation to produce a great enso, or with anticipation and fear in the lack of ones abilities. The perfect is considered in the imperfection. It is what it is – without judgment, a perfect record of that pure moment of amerced creativity. Participants will be provided with the use of a brush, ink and paper, the last enso created can be taken home. www.tashimannox.com