Kensho - Seeing One's Original Buddha Nature
by Nadja Van Ghelue
Title
Kensho - Seeing One's Original Buddha Nature
Artist
Nadja Van Ghelue
Medium
Painting - Ink On Rice Paper
Description
Zen calligraphy of the Zen phrase Kenshō in Japanese, jiànxìng in Chinese which means 'Seeing one's nature', meaning one's own original awakened mind.
The characters are:
見, Japanese KEN, Chinese JIAN : to see.
性, Japanese SHO, Chinese Xing: the essential nature or Buddha-nature
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. (quotation from The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, Buddhist Text Translation Society)
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May 23rd, 2018
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