Become the master of words—the philosophy of writing

1. Write without deliberate intent

Gould said: "I hate listeners. ”

Gould's disgust was actually mob law. i.e. the rules of the mob.

He likes to play alone, not in full view. Because he plays completely for himself, he does not want to be disturbed by others.

It is said that the Song Emperor Song Yuangong wanted to choose a painter to paint, and many painters applied for the job, and they were very polite, and only after thanking him did they transfer ink to paint. Because there were so many applicants, half of them were crowded outside to paint. At this time, a painter came, and this late painter, with a leisurely color, neither squeezed forward nor sat down, but directly returned to his residence. Song Yuangong saw it and quickly sent someone to follow him to see and understand. I saw the man return to his quarters, undressed and naked, and sit on the floor very casually, painting with all his might, engrossed, and completely oblivious to anything else. After hearing this, Song Yuangong said: "There is no need to choose again, this person is a real painter." ”

Original text: "Song Yuanjun will paint, all history will come, and will stand up." Add pen and ink. On the outside half. There is a history later, the value is not the trend, the acceptance is not standing, so the house. If the minister sees it, he will win like a disloyalty. Jun yue: But it is the real painter also. ”

Many people like to write calligraphy, but very few people can become calligraphers. There are two kinds of people who practice calligraphy, the first is the person who writes for himself, and the second is the person who writes for others. Calligraphers can only appear in collections of the first type of person.

When you have the slightest thought of performing, showing, and seeking the approval of others, you have lost the authenticity of calligraphy. If the heart is not true, the meaning is not true, if the intention is not true, the hand is not true, the pen is not true, and if the pen is not true, the word is not true. If the words are not true, the beauty is lost! As for all art, it is nothing more than that!

Zhuangzi said: Heavy outside is clumsy inside.

Sartre said: The other is hell.

Gould said: "I hate the audience.

True existence is the first philosophy, and truth is the mother of beauty. It is the source of aesthetics.

Aesthetics and the first philosophy, i.e., metaphysics, are one and the same. That is, the unity of tao and beauty!

Zhuang Zi said: "There is great beauty in heaven and earth without words." At four times, there is a clear law without discussion, and everything is reasonable without saying. ”

"Great beauty" is the embodiment of the Tao, which is the same expression as Zhuangzi's "Heavenly Happiness", "Zhile", and "Heavenly Sound".

In the parable of "undressing", the "undressed" person behaves differently from other painters. It is because the person who "undresses" has experienced the "Tao", that is, he has experienced beauty. Song Yuanjun praised the "undressed" as "the true painter also". Obviously, Song Yuanjun also knows the true meaning of art.

Zhuangzi opposed deliberate pursuit, saying: "If the husband is not deliberately high, without benevolence and righteousness, without merit and fame, without rivers and seas and idle, without guidance and longevity, without forgetting, without being there, without being there, without being there, without being infinite, and the beauty of all people follows it." This way of heaven and earth is also the virtue of the saints. Because the Tao is out of nature, it opposes all man-made distortions and advocates the form of nature.

The ancients believed that only those works that had no traces of artificial creation were the best in the works of art.

"All poems are flat, strange, thick, or light. Nature is always precious. If the elegance of taibai is long-lasting, solid. Although Shaoling's business is dismal. It's also like a seamless suit. Another example is the plain and easy of yuan and white, and the solid. That is, the bitter thinking of Dongye and the Yangtze River. Yuchuan, Nagayoshi's ChiselIng Dangerous Youyi Mountain, Feiqing's Shop Jin liexiu. The poor also come out of the machine. If it is purely strong. Nothing interesting. It's famous. ”

"Fu Yixin is unusual. Different from the usual is strange, and the word is high from the crowd. For the sake of the crowd, it is strange. The text of the tiger and leopard had to be in the dog and sheep, and the sound of the luan and phoenix had to be bowed to the crow. Jin Yuzhi had to show off on the tiles. Unintentionally. Naturally, too. ”

While other painters follow the rules and are respectful, true painters are "late, and the value is not the same." Not standing up". He has forgotten all outward courtesy, form and man-made. And he also "undressed and wins." That is, the act of stripping naked, idle, informal, and sitting with legs crossed. This is the realm of the Inner Saint. The state of the body, so Song Yuanjun said: "Can be done." It is a real painter also. ”

2. True self, real words

People who live for themselves are real people, and people who live for external things are false people.

The person who paints for himself is a real painter, and the person who paints for others is a pseudo-painter.

The person who writes calligraphy for himself is a true calligrapher, and the person who writes calligraphy for others is a pseudo-calligrapher.

A person who writes for himself is a true writer, and a person who writes for others is a pseudo-writer.

People who write for whatever reason include — business interests, traffic fans, vain vanity, desire for superiority, begging for approval, and so on. It will rebel against the circulation of positive energy in society as a whole, and have negative forces on itself, others, and society.

The road knows the horsepower, sees the hearts of the people for a long time, and makes false claims in vain. It shouldn't be yours, it's not yours after all, it should be yours because your disguise has left you, and the so-called bamboo basket will become your final result when it is empty.

Writing for oneself is a realm of high spiritual freedom, a pure aesthetic attitude that is beyond fame and fortune and without false self. This is also the state of "I lost my life" mentioned in "Zhuangzi", only to forget the hypocrisy. In order to become one with heaven and earth, to obtain "heavenly happiness".

There are a series of allegories depicting the deification of skills in Zhuangzi, such as "cutting wood for the sake of the sword", "the thief who inherits the oyster", "the cunding of the cattle", "the lüliang water", "the gongqi swirling finger", "the Jinren caozhou" and so on. Although these stories only describe the mastery of skill, these "Taoist" practitioners have a common premise, that is, the psychological state of quiet concentration, which is consistent with the aesthetic psychological state of the "undressed" person. Only when art creators have such an aesthetic mentality can they reach the highest state of creation.

This state of mind is extremely important for writing, and Lu Ji wrote in "Wen Fu": "Its beginning is also the opposite of the reception. Ponder the news. Hearts wander. "Lu Ji asked the author to focus on the outside and focus on the inside to create.

Liu Xun wrote in the "Wenxin Carved Dragon Divine Thought" chapter: "It is Tao Jun's Wensi, your dignity in the void, the sparse five internal organs, and the spirit of bathing snow." It also requires the elimination of the scattered mind and the quiet and focused artistic conception.

The clear state of mind of "undressing" is the aesthetic state of mind that excludes interference, and this clear state of mind makes the aesthetic subject get rid of all external interference and material tiredness. Keep your heart and spirit pure and focused. Focus on a specific object of artistic expression. Through the contemplation of objects, the aesthetic photography of the object is achieved.

Cai Yong of the Han Dynasty said in the "Treatise on Pen": "Fu Shu, first sit silently and meditate, do whatever you want, do not speak, do not breathe, and be immersed in a dense and divine color, such as for the supreme being", all of which regard concentration, tranquility, and concentration as a necessary condition for aesthetic activities.

Zong Bing said in the "Preface to Painting Landscapes and Rivers": "The saint contains the Tao. Cheng Huai tastes like. "Cheng Huai" is to calm his heart. Don't be bothered by things.

Liu Daool's "Commentary on The Famous Paintings of the Holy Dynasty" records that the Song Dynasty painter Zhao Guangpu "is especially good at painting Fanma, and whoever wants to do it must be secretive." Audiovisual and visual are cut off. Can be grass and trees. "Only by turning a blind eye, turning a deaf ear, and eliminating all external interferences can we concentrate on the artistic object to be expressed."

Ming Yuanhaoyun in the "Four Ming Poetry": "Where composition, ashram hidden, meditation search, unexpected poetry thinking quickly, wonderful sentences cute heart." Wang Yuanqi of the Ming Dynasty said in the "Rain Window Long Pen", "When painting with a brush, you must be idle and comfortable." Sweep away the vulgar intestines, silently on the plain width, and concentrate on calming the breath. "They all emphasize that the subject of art should be humble in mind. Concentrate your mind. Not utilitarian. Clear taste, so as to produce a kind of creativity in the wandering mind and concentration, so that people perceive the beauty of the dao, the beauty of the logic of all things, and the beauty of language. in order to write a good work.

3. Be yourself

Other artists burn incense in ashrams. The painter Gu Junzhi lived in seclusion in an uninhabited high-rise building. "Grass Saint" Zhang Xu was drunk.

"Sui Shu Xue Daoheng" Yun: "Every time Daoheng constructs a text, he will sit in the air and lie on the wall." Smell someone angry outdoors. ”

Zhang Yanyuan's "Selected Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties" in the Tang Dynasty records that when the painter Gu Jun painted, "often knotted high-rise buildings as painting places, and each time he climbed the stairs to go to the ladder." Family members are rare. ”

Ming Dynasty Yang Biao Zhengyun: "Fan Guqin... When the weather is bright, the night of the breeze and the bright moon, the incense ashram, sit still, the heart is not out. The heart and blood are united with God, and the spirit is united with the Tao. ”

The Tang Dynasty's "Book of Tang and The Biography of Zhang Xu" records that when Zhang Xu wrote a book, it was often the passion of drinking that rose up, and after drunkenness, he shouted and walked wildly before asking for a pen. Sometimes even without a pen, "ink with the head, throw it away", "the changes are endless." If there is divine help". Write after you wake up. It is "unrequited."

Writing must be humble and meditative. Eliminate the utilitarian heart and get rid of the shackles of external success. Wang Fuzhi said a very wonderful passage in the "Qian Xie": "Those who can prosper are called Haojie." The one who is happy, the one who is born of sex is also the one who is angry. Procrastination is obedient, but it is not the case in the world, working all day and not being able to live among the wives of the Lu family, counting meters of salary. Day by day to discourage its qi, look up at the sky and do not know its height, look down at the ground without knowing its thickness, although it feels like a dream, although it sees it as blind, although it moves its four bodies diligently but its heart is not good, but it is not happy. The saints teach poetry to cleanse their turbid hearts and shake their twilight breath. Na to Haojie and later to the sages, this salvation of humanity in the chaotic world of the great power also. ”

In this passage, Wang Fuzhi describes two different states of life: one is obscured by fame and fortune and daily life. A state of life that is full of calculations, depressed will, and sluggish; the other is the opposite, a state of life that is full of vitality, broad-mindedness, sensitivity, and heroic weather. Whether or not you can "rejuvenate" is the fundamental difference between these two states of life. And "xing" is the embodiment of their own physical and mental state, only in this way can people gain the freedom to write and express themselves better. Exercise your thinking and language, straighten out your own life logic, and finally know yourself and become yourself.

5. Principles of Writing

I think here are my writing principles: don't go against your own conscience, don't beg for the approval of others, don't care about the denigration of others, don't crave praise from others. Insist on writing what you want to say, insist on the expression of good intentions, the rigor of logic, the completeness of cognition and the truth of thought.

Self-growth, self-improvement, helping others, and raising awareness through writing. Self-interest, altruism, help yourself and help others.