He uses arm muscle to pound rice without babbling about Zen:
He uses his mallet to smash the idea of "Originally not one thing" into smithereens!
Inscription by Hyoko ["Ice Pot," Jakushitsu's pen name]
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“Zen art will make your abode a better place”–Hakuin
Zen masters used the medium of paper, brush, and ink to create Zenga–art formed with “brushstrokes of enlightenment.” Over the centuries, Zenga were widely dispersed over Japan, displayed everywhere–in temples, in farm houses, in merchant shops, in samurai villas, and in lordly castles. In modern times, Zenga have been recognized as one of the glories of world culture, and many wonderful Zenga have come to the West to work their magic.
Unlike most ancient Buddhist art on today’s antique markets–items that were more or less looted from the temples and homes where they were originally kept–Zenga were created with the intention of being exported to the far corners of the globe. Zenga are the relics a master leaves behind, meant to inspire and instruct. The master is truly present in the brushstrokes of his or her art, speaking to the viewer directly, in the here and now, face to face. The impact of a good Zenga is immediate and long lasting.
He uses arm muscle to pound rice without babbling about Zen:
He uses his mallet to smash the idea of "Originally not one thing" into smithereens!
Inscription by Hyoko ["Ice Pot," Jakushitsu's pen name]
Sixth Patriarch
He uses arm muscle to pound rice without babbling about Zen:
He uses his mallet to smash the idea of "Originally not one thing" into smithereens!
Inscription by Hyoko ["Ice Pot," Jakushitsu's pen name]
GYO (Practice)
Holding with your hands, walking with your feet, eating food, drinking liquid, preparing meals, all the activities of daily life, even the most trifling, under the most difficult circumstances—that is where enlightenment must unfold!
Murasakino Shoun
Practice by Shoun
GYO (Practice)
Holding with your hands, walking with your feet, eating food, drinking liquid, preparing meals, all the activities of daily life, even the most trifling, under the most difficult circumstances—that is where enlightenment must unfold!
Murasakino Shoun
[BOAR]
Its nostrils flared, charging straight ahead!
When its tusks strike something
it as if heaven and earth
are torn to pieces!
Brushed in the year of the Metal Boar
By Sahen of Higashiyama (Mokurai's pen name)
Boar
[BOAR]
Its nostrils flared, charging straight ahead!
When its tusks strike something
it as if heaven and earth
are torn to pieces!
Brushed in the year of the Metal Boar
By Sahen of Higashiyama (Mokurai's pen name)
Sport and play like the gods!
Brushed by Reikai Dojin
Reikai Daruma
Sport and play like the gods!
Brushed by Reikai Dojin
When you rise in the morning think of all the good fortune that will come your way, for your children and grandchildren.
Year of the Wood Rat [1924]
(signed) Master of the Golden Sea,
Treasure Mountain
Daikoku
When you rise in the morning think of all the good fortune that will come your way, for your children and grandchildren.
Year of the Wood Rat [1924]
(signed) Master of the Golden Sea,
Treasure Mountain
Ten-Verse Life-Prolonging Kannon Sutra
Kanzeon! Hail to Buddha!
We are one with Buddha,
Bound to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
We are always joyful and pure,
In the morning, thinking of Kanzeon,
In the evening, thinking of Kanzeon,
Continuous thoughts of her rise from our hearts,
Those thoughts never leave our hearts.
Kanreki, Year of the Wood Pig [1754], Summer
Hakuin Kannon
Ten-Verse Life-Prolonging Kannon Sutra
Kanzeon! Hail to Buddha!
We are one with Buddha,
Bound to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
We are always joyful and pure,
In the morning, thinking of Kanzeon,
In the evening, thinking of Kanzeon,
Continuous thoughts of her rise from our hearts,
Those thoughts never leave our hearts.
Kanreki, Year of the Wood Pig [1754], Summer
Green pines flourish even where people come to live;
Water flows wherever it wants without a thought.
Tesshu Koji
Calligraphy
Green pines flourish even where people come to live;
Water flows wherever it wants without a thought.
Tesshu Koji
Flowing water blue and blue, billowing clouds thick and thick;
Transmission of the Law is this, in the peaks and valleys.
Painted and inscribed by the man of the Way Nanshin.*
* Mukai's Zen-master name.
Daruma
Flowing water blue and blue, billowing clouds thick and thick;
Transmission of the Law is this, in the peaks and valleys.
Painted and inscribed by the man of the Way Nanshin.*
* Mukai's Zen-master name.
The mountain colors at sunset.
Respectully brushed and inscribed by Daikyu of Nanzen[-ji].
Daruma
The mountain colors at sunset.
Respectully brushed and inscribed by Daikyu of Nanzen[-ji].
Take the Best!
(dated) Metal/Ram Year (1931), June
(signed) Rinno [Abbot] Mugai
Take The Best!
Take the Best!
(dated) Metal/Ram Year (1931), June
(signed) Rinno [Abbot] Mugai
*A very formal and respectful form of signing one's name.
Daruma
*A very formal and respectful form of signing one's name.
PURE WIND
The 84-year-old monk Haku-un from Matsushima.
Pure Wind
PURE WIND
The 84-year-old monk Haku-un from Matsushima.
My heart is like the autumn moon,
Shining pure and lucid on the green pond;
No, nothing can compare—
How should I explain?
Kanzan
My heart is like the autumn moon,
Shining pure and lucid on the green pond;
No, nothing can compare—
How should I explain?
The wind blows through a single pine.
[signed] Reikai Dojin
Side View Daruma
The wind blows through a single pine.
[signed] Reikai Dojin
Against the green river, birds look even whiter;
On the blue mountain, pink flowers burning to bloom.
Inscription and painting by Seisetsu.
Daruma
Against the green river, birds look even whiter;
On the blue mountain, pink flowers burning to bloom.
Inscription and painting by Seisetsu.
No dependence on world or letters;
A separate transmission outside the scriptures!
[Brushed] at Zensho-an [the temple Tesshu founded in Tokyo]
(signed) Tesshu Fujiwara
Daruma
No dependence on world or letters;
A separate transmission outside the scriptures!
[Brushed] at Zensho-an [the temple Tesshu founded in Tokyo]
(signed) Tesshu Fujiwara
[Daruma] came from the West to the East.
He faced the wall at his cave in Shorin [Shaolin].
Like this, one flower had five petals.
Everything unfolded just as it should.
He aimed right for the target and hit the mark!
Year of the Fire Dog [1887], mid-autumn
Inscription and painting by the descendant of Daruma, Sekiren
Daruma
[Daruma] came from the West to the East.
He faced the wall at his cave in Shorin [Shaolin].
Like this, one flower had five petals.
Everything unfolded just as it should.
He aimed right for the target and hit the mark!
Year of the Fire Dog [1887], mid-autumn
Inscription and painting by the descendant of Daruma, Sekiren
White clouds mysteriously conceal my mountain hut.
(signed) Nantembo, age 83
One Line Calligraphy
White clouds mysteriously conceal my mountain hut.
(signed) Nantembo, age 83
Vast emptiness,
Nothing holy!
(signed) Abbot of Kokusei-ji Kaio.
Standing Daruma
Vast emptiness,
Nothing holy!
(signed) Abbot of Kokusei-ji Kaio.
He shut himself off from the world for a long time;
Flowers bloomed, autumn moons shined while
he was engaged in Zen practice.
He proclaimed mysteries wordlessly,
And passed his true teaching to his disciples.
Taisho Ten [=1910] autumn
Brushed at my Zen hermitage
Daruma
He shut himself off from the world for a long time;
Flowers bloomed, autumn moons shined while
he was engaged in Zen practice.
He proclaimed mysteries wordlessly,
And passed his true teaching to his disciples.
Taisho Ten [=1910] autumn
Brushed at my Zen hermitage
[Daruma] has come to give us a strong dose of medicine:
Human beings pass freely between life and death;
Realize this and will you will attain bliss!
Respectfully painted and inscribed in the autumn
of Kaei 5, Year of the Water Rat [1852]
on Wisdom Wood Mountain
by Monk Fuji.*
*One of Jimmyo's pen names.
Daruma
[Daruma] has come to give us a strong dose of medicine:
Human beings pass freely between life and death;
Realize this and will you will attain bliss!
Respectfully painted and inscribed in the autumn
of Kaei 5, Year of the Water Rat [1852]
on Wisdom Wood Mountain
by Monk Fuji.*
*One of Jimmyo's pen names.
Brushed at the request of Mr. Ito by Tesshu Koji.
Calligraphy
Brushed at the request of Mr. Ito by Tesshu Koji.
[right]
DREAM
The old fellow Kan'un [Shizan's Zen-master name], age 93.
[left]
DREAM
The old fellow Kan'un age 101.
Dream Pair
[right]
DREAM
The old fellow Kan'un [Shizan's Zen-master name], age 93.
[left]
DREAM
The old fellow Kan'un age 101.
Originally there is not one thing,
So where can dust alight?
Respectfully brushed by Daikyu.
Daruma
Originally there is not one thing,
So where can dust alight?
Respectfully brushed by Daikyu.
