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The Straightforward Mind Is The Place Of Enlightenment, Zen Painting
Painting, Ink on Rice Paper
Size: 15 W x 54 H x 0.1 D in
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This calligraphy shows the Zen saying 'The Straightforward Mind Is The Place Of Enlightenment, 直⼼是道場, brushed in a flowing cursive style. This phrase is attributed to the famous laymen Vimalakirti. As the Vimalakirti sutra states: One day a young bodhisattva was about to leave the city of Vaisali where he met Vimalakirti who was just arriving. He asked him where he was coming from. Vimalakirti answered, "I am coming from the place of enlightenment." The bodhisattva asked him, "From the place of enlightenment? Where is that"? Vimalakirti replied "A straightforward mind is the place of enlightenment."straightforward mind is the place of enlightenment." Other possible translations for this saying are: The straightforward mind is the place of practice The straightforward mind is the Dojo This original calligraphy is not framed, to use the Oriental technical term, it is not mounted yet. When you brush on rice paper, it absorbs the ink and it wrinkles. Therefore the artwork needs to be mounted, which means it is stretched and flattened to take the wrinkles away. For more information about mounting this Zen calligraphy please visit my website, at https://www.theartofcalligraphy.com/zen-art, where I recommend you a mounter in California, US. Please be aware that I cannot take any responsibility for the mounting. The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube. Please note that the white borders showing in the 'View in A Room' image are not on the original artwork.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Ink on Rice Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:15 W x 54 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not applicable
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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My artwork comprises Zen calligraphy, watercolor and ink paintings, and abstract calligraphies. My mediums are ink, watercolors and natural pigments on rice paper, mainly Xuan paper. I wield the Chinese and Japanese brush, preferably the flexible sheep's hair brush. Many of my Zen calligraphies express the Emptiness teaching from the Heart Sutra, which has been the original inspiration for my Japanese calligraphy artwork. Other calligraphies focus on the teachings of the Diamond Sutra, Platform Sutra, or depict Zen koan, Zen poetry or single kanji. In my watercolors and ink paintings I strive for a pictorial synthesis of the subject, in the spirit of Japanese ink painting, using bold washes and vivid brush strokes.
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