Journal

The longer I paint, the more I feel it: the truly hard thing is not painting something to look "like" — it is, in the moment the brush comes down, temporarily forgetting all the……

Dreamscapes of mountains and rivers: Sheng Hui on inner imagery and the abstract realm, with five oil paintings.

My first impression on seeing Brother Sheng Hui's oil paintings was stillness — and, permeating it, a distinct flavor of Zen. He might well be called a practitioner who paints. ……

Sheng Hui lives a remarkably genuine life. Keeping a household, teaching school, making paintings — three strands woven into one whole, none slighted, all thriving in harmony. H……

Out painting with friends, I often hear someone say how miserable it is to have painted badly today, how knotted up inside they feel — and I feel exactly the same. If that is so……

1. Cast aside all technique; a single idea is enough. 2. When looking at the landscape, keep your gaze fixed even more closely on the self who paints — paint what is in your hea……

The Buddha's teaching speaks of eighty-four thousand dharma gates, and a practitioner will choose the one gate that resonates most deeply with their own mindstream, the one with……

As I understand it, the novelty and contemporaneity of schema is much like Buddhist disciples after enlightenment, who appear before others in different guises. Master Hongyi wa……