Kensho - Seeing One's Nature
by Nadja Van Ghelue
Title
Kensho - Seeing One's Nature
Artist
Nadja Van Ghelue
Medium
Painting - Ink On Rice Paper
Description
Kensho - Seeing One's Nature
Semi-cursive calligraphy of the Zen phrase Kenshō, which means 'Seeing one's nature'.
The Japanese kanji are:
見 ken, to see
性 sho, nature, essence
The following teaching by the sixth Zen Patriarch Hui-neng, has inspired this calligraphy:
Use your own true nature and [its inherent] wisdom to contemplate and illuminate all dharmas without grasping or rejecting them. Just this is seeing one's essential nature and realizing Buddhahood. (The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, Buddhist Text Translation Society)
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