Introduction: Only by seeing the life course of the person can we understand the literary and artistic creation of the responsibility, which naturally includes calligraphy.
When he was 13 years old, he had not yet left home, when his name was Tang Tai, he followed his father to Beijing, passing through Nanjing, the famous prostitute Ma Xianglan wanted to put flowers on his bun, he pushed it and said: "Yun sideburns are annoyed with new frost, and they are not delicate." Shyly picked young branches and inserted them on the child's head. ”
Who is Ma Xianglan? One of Qin Huai's Eight Yans! Although he is a famous prostitute, he is like an empty valley orchid, which is born in the world and is independent in the world. The orchids she painted reached the point of a thousand gold, and even a traitor like Wei Zhongxian, who had obtained a picture of Ma Xianglan's orchids, was overjoyed and invited the guests to enjoy it together.
Ma Xianglan "Stone Orchid Bamboo Diagram"
Such a woman, ordinary people can not enter the eyes, give him flowers, is not because of young talent? But he wrote this poem because of their age.
Years later, He became an old monk, remembering that he said that Ma Xianglan had white hair, and he liked flowers of conspicuous and delicate colors, pretending to be shy and pick fresh, so he had to insert things into the hair of children. After comparing his current mentality, he made a poem: "Spring comes all day without going wild, laughing and folding famous flowers all over the head." A monk let me go, and now seventy is still in the wind. ”
Can you believe it? Such a monk who claims to be only in the hands of heaven and still likes to be a gentleman at the age of 70, has lived in regret all his life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="128" > the Buddhist gate is quiet, and finally has not been emptied of the grievances</h1>
Tang Tai, the character DaLai, the legal name Puhe, also known as Tonghe, self-titled "responsibility", meaning "can bear the family business of Rulai", Ming Wanli was born in Jinning, Yunnan in the twenty-first year, Qing Kangxi sat in Dali Gantong Temple in the twelfth year, at the age of 81.
Born in a family of scholars, Tang Tai was intelligent since childhood, good at literary painting, and especially poetry, and received a strict enlightenment education from Confucianism from an early age. From the age of 5, he was "a teacher of the ancestors and officials, and the class was based on ancient poetry", and at the age of 6, he was trained by zu Ting, and at the age of 10, he was able to write poetry. At the age of 11, he was admitted to the first place in the show. At the age of 13, he was a disciple of the doctor, and went north with his father Mao De to be elected.
Dong Qichang called his poems "Wen Dun elegant, there is no need to go to the imperial capital and have the four masters of the algae, do not have to give the former plug and have the method of Shaoling".
Chen Meigong called him "Lingxin Daoxiang" and "Strange Man of the World".
However, it was such an ambitious person with lofty ideals who, at the time of national crisis, helplessly chose to "be alone", and the result was to stay away from the world, tie the knotted chicken foot mountain, take refuge in Buddhism, and since then there has been no Tang Tai, only the responsibility exists in the heavens and the earth.
The relevant account of the responsibility in the Ming Dynasty Nanluo:
Sha Dingzhou drove Mu Tianbo, stood in the city, killed the gentry, and assisted the inspector to neglect it, and dai Shu's town of Dian. Gongsheng Tangtai is actually the mastermind... The Emperor martyred the country, and Dian was also reckless and foolish, Mu Tianbo was mediocre, allowing adultery and profit, and the government decree was not good. Those who bear the good deeds of Gong Zhenqi and vainly hope for Sha Dingzhou, rely on their military strength, or can replace the Mu clan to support the Ming Society,...... Liu Kou swirled into Dian, and Sha was defeated and died. The master fled to the Chicken Foot Mountain, patrolled for several years, and began to shave his hair as a monk.
As a scholar, the spirit of embracing the light is commendable, but it has never resisted the wheel of history. As a patrol, his family can be imagined. It is precisely this encounter that really leads to the fact that after taking refuge in Buddhism, he still remembers the pain of the world, until he is lifelong.
The most convincing words of the dying, the Qing Kangxi twelve years, the role of sitting on the book of praise: "The sky is also broken, the earth is also broken, admit the responsibility is missed, the tongue has been broken who dares to sit." After putting the pen down, the silence passed.
apparently. Bearing the end of his life is full of emotions, and his inner pain can be imagined, the Buddha's door is quiet, and it is really a sin to not empty the worldly grievances! Sin!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="144" > the path of Buddhist calligraphy from the Zen level</h1>
Calligraphy, usually, is a high degree of unity between content and state of mind. Just like Wang Xizhi created the unrepeatable and beautiful "Orchid Pavilion Sequence" on the elegant collection of clear air, huifeng and chang, group of talents, and few growth sets. Yan Zhenqing was devastated by the loss of his nephew and created the magnificent "Sacrifice Nephew Manuscript". The same is true of responsible calligraphy.
There are two types of Buddhist calligraphy, one is a sutra writing body as a daily practice, and the other is a Zen book as an expression of the Buddha's heart. Writing calligraphy as a staged psychological process of monks' retreats often fails to truly express the inner feelings of monks.
This is not the case with Zen books, which are the true expression of the buddha's heart in calligraphy.
However, when Zen books are mentioned, they are often titled with the philosophical height of Buddha-nature, and ignore the earthly marriage of The Buddhas, so that it is generally believed that any Zen book reflects the highest aesthetic ideal of Buddha-nature. Don't you know that just as there are levels of Buddhist cultivation, Zen books are also hierarchical.
This level is related to the degree of detachment from the Buddha's dust, to the content of the Writing of the Zen Book, and to the pen and ink imagery expressed in the Zen Book. The same is true of the art of calligraphy.
"After crossing the Xiqiao Yuanshi City, Qianfeng is a room full of life, the chaotic clouds and fog are all gone, only the chai incense is clear in the brain", this is the content written by the fan. Ostensibly writing about landscapes, in fact, he is writing about himself.
After taking refuge in Buddhism, he was away from the complicated urban life and accompanied by a Zen room surrounded by mountains. Responsible for trying to empty the "chaotic clouds and fog" of the earthly world in the mind, simple life. However, this is just an attempt, and it is difficult to soothe the wounds of the earthly soul no matter what, and you can only restrain yourself as much as possible and don't think about it too much, and that's it.
The above state of mind is reflected through the calligraphy work itself. The twists and turns of the pen, the turn of the square fold, and the slow and astringent gestures all show the inner peace of mind.
Then there is the poem I wrote at the beginning of this article, which I wrote when I was 70 years old: "Spring comes dayless little wild swim, folded to get the name of the flower full of head." A monk let me go, and now seventy is still in the wind. ”
The style of this poem is calm and steady, the method is fast, the escape is free, the flow is smooth, the pen and ink are rich, the changes are unpredictable, there is no contrivance, there is no conservatism, and the meaning of the poem corresponds.
The first two sentences are memories of a beautiful life on earth, and the last two sentences are depictions of their own Buddha-like life. His pride is indescribable, so that more than ten years after leaving the dust edge, he still remembers this matter, which is enough to glimpse the dust complex of responsibility. More allegorically, in the last two sentences, "One of the monks let me go, and now seventy is still flowing." It is impossible to do the things of the wind, but the heart of the wind has not changed. Is that what it's called? Color is emptiness, emptiness is color? I'm afraid only I know best.
"The red drifting spring outside the window is late, and the mountain family has been raising clumsy for a long time." Flying in the air with the wind, a corner of the mountain will let who "this is another masterpiece of calligraphy."
Zen Buddhism has a saying: look at the mountain is the mountain, see the water is the water, see the mountain is not the mountain, see the water is not the water, look at the mountain or the mountain, see the water or the water. At this time, the responsibility is close to the stage of "looking at the mountain or the mountain, looking at the water or the water".
The calligraphy style is enough to prove this, this calligraphy clearly bears the shadow of Huai Su, who takes Huai Su as a teacher, not only because of the calligraphy itself, but because Huai Su's calligraphy is closer to the highest state of Buddha-nature. Taking Huai Su as a teacher, he has already made great strides in the realm.
There is another book that deserves attention. That's what is written for. That is, the heart is a Buddha, arsenic wolf poison, resurrection from the dead, do not consume a single dose. At this point, the bearer has entered the zen realm.
epilogue:
When studying the books of responsibility, we cannot blindly emphasize the Buddha-nature Zen mind, let alone look at the fallen money as a responsibility, "on the Buddha's Zen and Zen nonsense, we should analyze the specific problems in detail, so as to conform to reality."
Not only that, but as far as calligraphy itself is concerned, when future generations write the history of Chinese monk calligraphy or talk about Buddhist calligraphy, they cannot bypass the responsibility under any circumstances. This in itself is enough to demonstrate the historical value of responsibility.
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