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The Awakened One, A Straightforward Buddha Calligraphy

The 8th day of the 12th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, and the 8th of December in Japan, Zen and Mahayana Buddhists commemorate the enlightenment of the Buddha of our time and world, Śākyamuni Buddha.

I would like to celebrate this Bodhi day with a new calligraphy of the 佛 Buddha kanji, Japanese ''butsu', Chinese 'fo'. The word Buddha stems from the Sanskrit 'budh', which means to 'awake', hence Buddha means 'the awakened one'.

With this Buddha calligraphy I also want to recall the core of the teachings of the sixth Zen Patriarch, the Chinese Master Hui-neng:
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Good and Wise Fiends Bodhi is just the purity of your own nature. Attend only to this and you will straightaway achieve Buddhadhood.
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(from : 'The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra', by the Buddhist Text Translation Society)


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My gallery presents calligraphies and paintings that breathe the spirit of contemporary Chinese and Japanese brush art. The main feature of my art work is to grab the moment of inspiration and express in its fullness with the brush. My medium is ink and natural pigments on rice paper. My primary tool is the flexible Oriental sheep's hair brush. In the calligraphy section you will find artwork brushed in different styles of Japanese calligraphy. The very different calligraphic styles evoke different moods, which you will be able to appreciate yourself by browsing the calligraphy print gallery. The subjects covered in the calligraphy section are mainly related to Zen and Buddhism and martial arts. As for the painting gallery you will find...