Sublime

So the corpse of the present is being preserved as a record.

I am not here to present a Buddhist gimmick, so that you can give your artwork a further twist, saying that you have studied with a Buddhist teacher and taken part in the Buddhist world.

The heaven, earth, and human principle comes from the Chinese tradition,

I would like to encourage everybody to practice meditation so we can actually see and look more. If we don’t understand ourselves, it will be very difficult to appreciate anything else that goes on in our world. And on the whole, please cheer up. Don’t analyze too much.

You feel you’ve been cornered, and you have to pounce out in one way or another.

The mentality of karma altogether is: If I do this, that is going to happen.

the only possible remedy, according to the traditional approach, is surrendering.

You don’t have to be labeled an artistic person, necessarily; anyone can work on that kind of perception. The only obstacles are hesitation and lack of interest. The sitting practice of meditation allows a sense of solidness and a sense of slowness and the possibility of watching one’s mind operating all the time.

A sense of nonthinking is necessary at the same time as a sense of the thinking process.