What is Zen?
Zen allows people to eliminate distracting thoughts and let go of everything, so that Zen should not be "anything"; Since Zen is nothing, but Zen believes that "everything is the way", so Zen is everything in life.
Zen is an important sect of Indian Buddhism born after the localization of China, and it is the enlightenment under the Bodhi tree of Shakyamuni, which proves that everyone has the Buddha nature, and that they become Buddhas by nature, without pretense.
The influence of Zen on Chinese painting is vast and far-reaching, and considering the Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism that influenced traditional Chinese culture, it can be concluded that Confucianism gives content to Chinese painting, Taoism gives spirit to Chinese painting, and Zen Buddhism gives Chinese painting a realm.
It was also under the influence of Zen Buddhism that Chinese aesthetics made its first major breakthrough in the Wei and Jin dynasties, that is, after the transformation from Confucianism-led educational aesthetics to Zhuangzi's Qiwu Yiqi aesthetics, and completed its second major breakthrough from the late Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, the transformation from the Wei and Jin dynasties' Qiwu Yiqi aesthetics to the natural mind aesthetics of Zen Buddhism, which was a great contribution of Zen Buddhism to the development of Chinese painting.
Zen Buddhism advocates that "without words, the mind is a Buddha".
As a result, some people explained Zen with public cases, leaving the famous "seeing the mountain is a mountain", "smiling with flowers", "the voice of one hand", "crossing the river with a reed", "returning to the west with a walk", "eating tea", as well as the "stick" of Zen Master Deshan, the "drink" of Zen Master Linji, the "tea" of Zen Master Zhaozhou, and the "cake" of Zen Master Yunmen.
Some people use poetry to explain Zen, so there is "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform." Originally, there was nothing, where to stir up dust" and "open the pool and do not wait for the moon, the pool will come into the moon", "watch the clouds and sit during the day, and sleep in the rain in autumn." There is nothing to do with the eyebrows, and there are thousands of years in the pen", and "Hands planted green seedlings all over the field, and when you look down, you can see the sky in the water." The six pure squares are rice, and the regression is originally forward" and "Nantai meditates on a furnace of incense, and condenses all day long. It's not about resting the mind and removing delusions, it's all about having nothing to discuss" and other famous Zen poems that can make people taste again and again and cleanse the soul.
You can't see it as you are
There are also painters who interpret Zen with paintings, such as the late five dynasties and early Song Dynasty painter Shi Ke's "Two Ancestors Tune the Heart", the Southern Song Dynasty painting monk Muxi's "Six Persimmons", Liang Kai's "Li Bai Xingyin", "Splashing Ink Immortals", Yujian's "Lushan Map" and other masterpieces and treasures of the world, let us feel the temperature of life, hear the sound of calling across the shore, and taste the calm and tranquility of life under the sparse and far-reaching.
As a painter, I am also deeply aware of Zen, just as people often rely on religion and art in their daily lives to temporarily reside in their wandering spirits. Of course, nowadays we are engaged in artistic creation, and it is not realistic for everyone to go to Buddhism, the way of approaching, and the Zen meditation, for me, how can we use Zen in painting, let go, let go, and release the feelings in our hearts, that is, the heart in the painting is not hindered, so "as soon as the door is closed, it is an outdoor peach orchard", "'stepping on chrysanthemums' does not have to go to Nanshan", and at the same time, I also hope that my works can evoke the silence and sleeping elegance that have been sealed in people's hearts for a long time. "The heart is like a square inkstone, not empty and dissatisfied. The eye is the sky, not extravagant or greedy", the painter should be calm, and the painting can be quiet; The painter must be good, and the painting can be good; The painter must be educated, and the painting can have connotation, "If you don't have it, it's not on the Danqing brush." ”
Zong Bing, a painter of the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote in his book "Painting Landscape Preface": "Idle and rational, blowing the piano. Phi Tu is right, sitting on the four wildernesses...... What is the aftermath, it's just a good idea. ”
(Text/Feng Zhaohui)
Morning Painting Zen:
Based on the current situation, I have no shame to face
Leaning on the spring alone, the heart is high
Let the loneliness not return home
Void but not yielding and more and more
It is better to be in the middle than to be poor
Wipe a clump of bamboo to remove the sorrow in your heart
But there is a sound, and there is nothing to find
The leaves are breezy and the high festival should be secluded
Who can be this gentleman and purple 10,000-year-old wood
A gentleman is born from the basics
Silence will eventually be the epitaph of the silent
When we see the truth but don't say a word
It is the day we go to death
One pole and two poles to repair the bamboo, May and June breeze
Why wander the world, just howl in the forest
Secretly drunk next to Xiaomei in the middle of the night
It's hard to be poor in words, and it's even more difficult to be empty-minded
The poem is silent in Youlan
As the saying goes, things are not as expected
There are no two or three who can talk about it
There is nothing to do with the brow, and there are thousands of years in the pen
Peace of mind in the room, Zen dwelling in concentration
Be an idler, the joy of the wilderness
If the heart is as quiet as tea, the wind can help
Eat tea and go
Melon seeds are not full of people's hearts, write this summer picture
Send it to the people who eat melons
The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it
Those who do high will be destroyed
The state of wealth is more suitable for hiding, so a small wealth is safe
I answer with a smile how cruel you were to me
"Stepping on" chrysanthemums does not have to go to Nanshan
Over 50 years old, eat eight points full
There are also two points for taking medicine
(Source: Yidao Escape)
Artist Profile
Feng Chaohui
Director and professor of the Art Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, member of the Academic Committee of the Academy, and tutor of master's students
Doctoral supervisor of the Department of Art Theory, Northeastern University
Librarian of Liaoning Provincial Cultural Relics Museum Series
Liaoning Province calligraphy and painting cultural relics identification expert
He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association
Director of Liaoning Provincial Artists Association and Executive Director of the Theory and Art Committee
Member of the Shenyang CPPCC
Decision-making consulting expert of Shenyang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government
He has lived in Japan as a Chinese artist for 16 years. After returning to China to teach, he published three A-class papers in Guangming Daily and People's Liberation Army Daily, published more than ten papers in the core journals of Peking University, and two senior political advice were signed and approved by the leaders of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, presided over the Ministry of Education, the National Art and Education Commission, the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education, the Department of Science and Technology, the Federation of Social Sciences and other teaching and research projects, and presided over the Liaoning Provincial Decision-making Consultation and the research project commissioned by the new think tank for consecutive years. His personal paintings have been collected by state-owned first-class cultural and museum institutions such as Liaoning Provincial Museum, Deng Xiaoping's Former Residence Exhibition Hall, and Shenyang Palace Museum.