Show Us Your Jewels! A Community Art Project

What does refuge look like to those who seek wisdom and liberation in both radical politics and compassionate contemplation? 

Check out our community art project:

Refuge: Show Us Your Jewels

[divide style="2"]Inspired to share? Show us what refuge looks like to you! Please join our community art project and help us dream up a more radical refuge.Share your visual or verbal representations of the Three Refuges, also known as the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. Many Buddhists turn to these jewels for refuge, and are in turn protected by them in our practice.

Here’s how to participate:

  1. Take or choose one original photo, or write a haiku/tweet, for each one of the following:
    • the quality of awakening (Buddha)
    • a learning that leads toward liberation (Dharma)
    • beloved community (Sangha)
  2. Send your contributions to jewels@bpf.org by August 31, 2017. If you can, help us practice access support by providing image descriptions!

[divide style="3"]To get you inspired, here are some sample jewels from BPF staff!

Kate Johnson's Jewels

Buddha: Also look downBuddha: Also look down

Image description: Two feet in lace-up shoes stand on square bricks, at the edge of a puddle filled with and surrounded by small red paper hearts.

Dharma: Why stand outside

Image description: A tall paned glass window fills the right side of the picture, surrounded by an exterior wall of mostly yellow bricks with a red brick accent underneath. Inside the window, there are small items on a desk and a triptych of red rectangles which each say "i love you"

Sangha: Ground within groundlessness

Image description: Two brown hands, appearing to be from the same person, grasp each other between the palms and wrists in front of a white cloth. Both wrists have red cords wrapped around them.[divide style="3"]

Leora Fridman's Jewels

Buddha:

I look to Twitteron the way to my coffeeand my morning rage

Dharma:

"Liberation is a process, and I think one of the first important things I had to do is stop believing in my inferiority." -- Rev. angel Kyodo williams

Sangha:

Beloved communionPower leaves the momentI leave it all to me

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