In a meeting in 1982 with the Naropa Institute arts faculty, the Vidyadhara referred to artistic practice as ongoing and all-pervasive. For instance, if you are a musician, you are a musician always, not just while you are playing your instrument. Your awareness of sound and silence is a twenty-four-hour practice. It applies to the way your knife clinks in a restaurant, the way the car door closes, the way somebody sneezes.

— Dharma art by Chögyam Trungpa (Dharma ocean series)