Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation

Still, art named a new way of relating to the public, distinct from politics and religion and set apart from eros.

That’s called threefold logic, and that kind of logic could be used in designing or producing a work of art. We could describe that as the heaven, earth, and human principle used in the Japanese tradition of flower arranging, or as the three bodies of the tantric art of Tibetan vajrayana Buddhism—dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya.

that “a work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist.”

If a piece of work, a fragment of consciousness, or an element of nature is somehow allowing us to access something bigger, that is its spiritual component made manifest. It awards us a glimpse of the unseen.