Red Ladder Studio
Bringing Buddhism to life

Wabi-sabi home retreat

Every moment can reveal profound truths. Moments of impermanence, insubstantiality and suffering are like cracks in our everyday world. Through these cracks, we glimpse chinks of light—three doorways into a new reality: signless, wishless, and open.

Creative Dharma Articles

Often quirky, sometimes deep, Vajradarshini delves into little corners of practice, shedding light on what it means to be a serious Dharma practitioner while living what looks like an ordinary life.

To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
— Viggo Mortensen