A summary of Shi Tao's painting quotations

"Too old to be simple." It refers to the chaotic state before the initial formation of the universe, suggesting that the so-called "law" begins with "impossibility".

"It's too simple, it's going to be scattered, and the law is established." What we are talking about here is Buddhism, and the word "three" in the text is the key. The so-called "three" is Buddhism, that is, breaking the chaotic state that Taikoo Li can't do, and the conditions that arise are called "origin" by Buddhism.

"Lee and the law? Standing in a painting, a painter has a foundation and the root of Vientiane. " Here Shi Tao put forward the principle of legislation. "A painting" does not refer to a painting, nor does it refer to what pattern, form and feeling it is. According to Zen, it should be clear-headed and clear-headed. Because all methods are not centrifugal, the heart can give birth to all methods. Hokkekyo said: "One law hides all laws, all laws are hidden in one law, all laws are one law, one law leads all laws, and all laws are in one law." The one mentioned in the scripture refers to the heart. Therefore, one of Shi Tao's "one painting method" refers to the heart. If a person has achieved popularity, he can achieve one, and his omnipotent method is among them. However, the fundamental way to realize the mental method lies in the source, the emptiness and visibility of the source. If it can be seen, it will be too easy for people to get what Shi Tao called "the method of one painting" Because this is arbitrary at this time, this method at this time is a method of great wisdom, so it is concluded in Shi Tao's article that "a painter has the foundation of many people and the root of all things".

"Seeing for God and hiding for people, the world doesn't know why." "Seeing" in this paper refers to "seeing confusion" in Buddhism, and the so-called "God" refers to human spirit. Because people's spirit is polluted by secular fallacies and heresies, there are five kinds of "seeing confusion", that is, seeing from the side, seeing from the body, avoiding seeing, seeing from seeing, and Jaken, but their true intentions are gone. With such a confused heart, it is impossible to reach the realm of emptiness, and it is impossible to establish painting methods. "Tibetan" is a kind of "Tibetan", which comes from the Buddhist scripture "All laws are hidden in one law". Shi Tao's "one" is called the heart, and all the laws are hidden in this heart. How can you see this "one" hidden in your heart with a delusional heart? Therefore, when Shi Tao said "for people", he meant people's understanding. It is necessary to establish a "one painting method". The world doesn't understand this truth, so Shi Tao said, "and the world doesn't know why."

"The method of painting is self-reliant." This sentence focuses on the word "I". Buddhism believes that "I" is different from the ego. The ego is enlightened and the ego is biased. Those who get bigger will get the "mental method", that is, they can see sex and draw a picture. On the contrary, it is difficult to draw pictures.

"Those who draw from the heart can't have the law, those who have the law can penetrate the law, and those who draw from the heart …" Here refers to those who can draw from the heart, that is, those who can't make the law. To achieve this state, we must first establish a "heart". Because there is no intention, no boundary, no boundary and no intention, and the state of mind is dependent, you can see the ground. The "land" mentioned here refers to the "heart", which is the source of all laws. The "free-willed person" mentioned by Shi Tao refers to the person who understands the truth that "the heart is one". If he reaches this state, he can achieve "the law cannot be born" and even do whatever he wants. "Fiona Fang's rules are excellent, and the rules of heaven and earth are also in operation." What we are talking about here is the law. Without rules and regulations, there would be no Fiona Fang, which is why things exist. This principle is closely related to the principle of the universe. The movement of heaven and earth is an inherent and inevitable law of the universe, a characteristic of the universe and a truth of the universe. The existence and change of everything in the world are inseparable from the truth of the universe. If you violate your own principles, you will go to the opposite side.

"The whole world knows that there are rules, but they don't know the meaning of husband rotation. This world binds people to the law. " Taoism says, "Walking is heaven, and Kun is earth." Ganxuankunzhuan is the principle of the universe. People only know that there is a square and a circle, but they don't know the profound truth contained in it. They only know one, not the other. This is because they don't know the truth of the universe. The so-called tie between heaven and earth refers to human ignorance, which is by no means the fault of heaven and earth.

"The law of serving mankind is in Mongolia. Although it is busy with the laws of nature and nurture, it can't be justified in the end. Therefore, if there is a law that cannot be done, it is a legal obstacle. " Because people don't understand the truth produced by "law", although the law has been established, they don't understand the essence of this law. Therefore, it is easy to have prejudice and cling to known laws, which makes the law an obstacle and cannot be changed. Buddhism and Zen call it a "legal obstacle".

"The ancient and modern laws are unstoppable, and the principle of a painting is unknown. A painting that is clear, the obstacles are not in the eyes, but can come from the heart. Painting is born from the heart and the obstacles are far away. " No matter ancient people or modern people, many people are fascinated by legal obstacles, but they don't know why. This is because they don't understand the truth of "one painting", that is, "the heart is one, and the whole life is complete." Understanding the principle of "one painting" means understanding the essence of law, so that we can get rid of the shackles of legal obstacles, and then we can never have laws or even do whatever we want. "The ancients knew it was there, and the changers knew it was there, and they were blessed. I have never seen my wife since ancient times. I regret that I am not familiar with it. " The ancients only knew to paint according to the specific image of the object, that is, as Sheikh's six laws said: "First, the charm is vivid; Second, the bone method pen; Third, it should be pictographic; Fourth, color with the class; Fifth, the place of business; Sixth, we must transfer and model. " These six methods have caused people to fall into legal obstacles since ancient times, making people obsessed with it for a long time and not knowing how to change it. However, savvy painters not only know their tools (familiar with traditional methods), but also try to change without being limited to this. Unfortunately, few people can do it since ancient times, and most of them are bound by knowing what they know.

"If knowledge is limited by what you see, it is not wide, so a gentleman can only borrow the past to open up the present." People who are fascinated by legal barriers have a narrow vision and are not open-minded. Therefore, only with the help of what the ancients said can we show it to present people. The ancients referred to by Shi Tao here are Sakyamuni Buddha.

"Again: if you can't do it, you can't do it. If you can't do it, you can't do it. It is the ultimate law. " Here, Shi Tao elaborated on the Buddhism that Sakyamuni Buddha said when he preached Zen at Lingshan Meeting. That is, the Buddhist poem: "Law cannot be law, and law cannot be law. How can you use the law when you can't pay back the money today? " ("Five Lights Meeting Yuan")

"Everything has power and laws to follow." The word "Jing" used here refers to what the Buddha said. Knowing this truth is like having power. This right enables people to break and control their own destiny, so that they are no longer fascinated by the law, thus creating their own path and making new changes.

"Once you know the classics, you will change your rights. Once you know the method, you can work hard. The husband painted the human solution. " The word "Jing" refers to Buddhist scriptures and Zen, and the word "Fa" refers to "painting". Knowing this lesson, you can change your position. In the past, you copied the ancients, followed the path of others, and were dominated by the "legal rights" of others. Once you are familiar with Zen and the method of "one painting", you can master this legal right by yourself, and you can make choices very freely to realize political reform. Ming Jue's "from impossible to law, from law to impossible" and "all laws are one law, and one law leads to all laws" are all "one painting method". This is how Shi Tao painted the world. "From the known, from the first to know also. Know and accept, don't accept. " This meaning comes from the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, which says, "... seeing five aggregates is empty ... so is receiving, thinking, doing and knowing ...". "Accepting" means accepting feelings, and "knowing" means knowing and understanding. Shi Tao's understanding of the five meanings of the Heart Sutra made him put forward the idea of receiving first and then knowing. This is the law of motion based on the natural laws of the universe.

"People from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty learned what they had received through their knowledge, knew what they had received and learned what they had learned, but they could know a little about one thing. The right to know about a painting has not expanded. " Many wise men in ancient and modern times, because they don't understand Zen, are all prophetic things, and they are easy to be subjective and fall into the confusion of "watching" or "watching". Even if it can be achieved, it can't reach the upper-level method, all because it doesn't know the truth of "one painting method".

"A painting contains everything in the middle. Painting is influenced by ink, ink is influenced by pen, and pen is influenced by wrist, wrist is influenced by heart, so it is affected." Everything has all kinds of laws, and when we know everything with an innocent heart, all kinds of laws belong to the heart. As the saying goes, "one law hides all laws, and all laws are hidden in the law", and "one painting contains all the Chinese" refers to this truth. For example, "Painting is influenced by ink ..." It is also the truth of "the unification of all laws (that is, the return to the heart)" to refer to the way in which heaven, earth and people merge in the universe. There is a saying: "No ancestors remain unchanged." "Look at the heart in the environment, return to the origin of the heart, create the environment with your heart, and illusion is life." This is the principle of the universe, so it is also accepted.

"However, it is more important for people to respect their own suffering than to give up on themselves." Shi Tao sincerely hopes that the painter can get the true meaning of painting methods and understand the truth contained in them, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve great success or even give up.

"It's painting, not self-discipline. If the husband accepts it, the painter will respect it. " Learning other people's painting methods, but blindly copying, copying, without changing, is tantamount to binding your hands and feet, and it is difficult to become a tool. If you know how to draw, you can become a useful person.

"Strong and use it, close to the outside world, interest-free. Yi said, "Heaven is strong, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement, so he respects it. "If you want to get the method of painting, you need to raise your awareness and have the spirit of self-improvement and hard work to achieve it. This is the way to respect and accept a painting." Pen and ink are for dense. Indiscriminate, just for chaos, chaos, who gave up a painting? Painting is spiritual in the mountains, moving in the water, living in the forest, and escaping in people. "When a pen meets ink, it becomes dense. Dense means smoke or gas. Dense here should mean: regardless of yin and yang, shade, empty color. Since the smoke is decomposed, it is naturally black, with yin and no yang, with thick and no light, with and without color, so there is no contrast, no change, no hierarchy, and naturally there is only chaos. If we want to divide chaos into different levels and show changes, who can draw mountains, empty water, forests and people immortal if we don't know the method of "one painting"

"The secret of pen and ink, the secret of solution, is the hand of the monarch. From ancient times to the present, it has become a family. " Anyone who dabbles in ink painting and knows the true meaning of painting methods can become a master of painters. From ancient times to the present, people who are unique are all people with great wisdom in "one painting method"

"Don't carve, don't rot, don't sink mud, don't implicate, don't disconnect, don't be unreasonable. It is in the spirit of neutralization in the ink sea that life is decided by the pen, the hair is removed from the scale, and the light shines in chaos. " Here, Shi Tao put forward his own unique views on the disadvantages of painting with the theory of "one painting method", that is, the pen and ink of painting pen can not be chiseled (meaning deliberately seeking), stale (meaning stiff and unnatural, old and uninspired), muddy (meaning painting is lifeless), implicated (meaning far-fetched or piecing together several techniques), disconnected (meaning incoherent, which is related to composition) Say whatever you want, and artistic thinking and painting techniques can only be reflected when they reach the highest level. Those so-called works that don't even know themselves, or the truth, are chaotic, strange, messy, ugly and dirty, which are all unreasonable. If they don't commit the above ills, their works can show their spirit. Only by deeply understanding the social world and natural mountains and rivers can his works be extraordinary and profound. Therefore, although the painting works are limited to ruler paper, they can get rid of its dross and take its essence, and its new ideas come to the fore on the paper, so that the viewer can see the light.

"Even if the pen doesn't write, the ink doesn't ink, and the painting doesn't draw, I am here. The lid is used to transport ink, not ink. Fuck the husband's pen, not his pen, take off the husband's womb, not his life. " No matter what pen, ink or painting, as long as I am here (the word "I" used here refers to the method of painting or the person who has gained the true meaning of painting), I can use ink according to my own intention. The author of Yunfu Mo and Cao Fu here refer to those who have obtained the "mental method", that is, the method of painting. People who have a painting method can transport ink freely and not be slaves of ink; Those who have the ability to draw, pen with people's wishes, not limited by the pen. The way to draw depends on diligence and understanding, so as to get rid of the mortal fetus and the mortal fetus will not leave on its own.

"Since one million, since ten thousand to cure a.. When you become one of them, you will be able to do everything in the world. " Innovating painting based on the principle of "one method leads to all methods, and all methods are in one method" is the right way to the peak of art. Without the method of "one painting", "one" is dense (that is, there is no level change, no color separation, yin and yang, depth and presence), and painters who paint in this way can be seen everywhere. We hope that this kind of painting will not appear in the future painting world. "Fools and vulgar people ridicule, ignorance is wisdom, and vulgar people are not cheap. Vulgarity is due to ignorance, and stupidity is due to ignorance. So far, we have no choice but to remain unknown. Achievement is changing, and understanding is also changing. The sick are invisible, while the shapeless are invisible. If you transport ink, you will do nothing. " Shi Tao thinks that there is no difference between stupidity and vulgarity, that is, stupidity is vulgarity, and vulgarity is stupidity. People who don't know how to paint often paint in the way of the ancients, which can be called ignorance and meanness. Although it can't surpass the predecessors, it is also the embodiment of the artist's intelligence. Although it is not divorced from the secular painting of the ancients, it can also be seen that it is handsome. With the development of painting, we can no longer understand the harm of simple imitation and inheritance. If you know Zen, you can achieve change through "one painting". If you can enjoy the scenery you want to describe with the great wisdom of Zen, it is no longer what you saw and felt before enlightenment, so writing and drawing will definitely change its painting method and form its own unique style. Then the use of ink will also change, just like reaching the realm of inaction.

"The ruler governs all things in the world, mountains and rivers. If the heart is light, the wisdom is stupid, and the customs are bright." You can see the world on a square inch of land. Only those who are calm and indifferent can realize the mystery of Zen, gain great wisdom and achieve transcendence. At this time, a new idea followed. "The world does not enforce the law, and the sky cannot enforce the law, not only in paintings, but also in words. Words and paintings have two ends and function as one. " Anyone who is really good at painting will not be obsessed with the painting methods of the ancients or others. Even the change of heaven and earth has no fixed law. This "indefinite method" is not only manifested in painting techniques, but also in calligraphy creation. Although painting and calligraphy are different, the skills needed to complete them are the same. As people often say, "calligraphy and painting" means the same thing.

"The painter is the foundation of painting and calligraphy, and the calligrapher is the acquired right of painting." The method of "one painting" is the first important method of writing and drawing. If you get the true meaning of "one painting method", you can grasp your own destiny and draw your own style of works.

"God can teach people the law, but not the work. God can teach people to draw, but not to change. People either abandon the law to cut merit, or leave pictures to change things, but the sky does not lie in people, although there are calligraphy and painting. " The laws of the universe are also the laws that people should have and master. People's innate quality and talent are the key to determine whether people can get Buddhism and Kung Fu. The characteristics of nature and all the concrete images created by nature are painted in front of people. However, how to change it for your own use depends on people's understanding. Therefore, it is difficult for a person without understanding and artistic talent to engage in painting art, so many people give up painting. This is not people's own fault, but God's will. Giving these people superhuman wisdom is a congenital failure. Although these people have painted many works, none of them can be handed down from generation to generation. According to today's statement, there is no preservation or collection value.

"Day Taoist, because it can be granted. Some people know and give more, while others know less and give less. Therefore, ancient and modern painting and calligraphy are all God-given, knowing more and knowing less, all of which are God-given painting and calligraphy methods, but people who are too extensive. Therefore, I have the theory of these two words. " Talent is the basis for deciding what a person has. People with big roots can get great wisdom, while people with small roots can only get small wisdom. Therefore, regardless of writing and drawing at all times and in all countries, people are born with talent and wisdom, which is inherent to people. People's innate talent and understanding can be said to be big or small, so no matter who is great or small, there are ways to write or draw. Therefore, the theory of "dual personality" is to remind people to distinguish between good and bad. "The ancients sent it to the pen and ink, and it was false to the mountains and rivers, but it was inaction." The ancients only talked about pen and ink in painting, and pinned the images they wanted to express on the use of pen and ink. Instead of using the theory of seeking "one painting method" by Zen Buddhism to study the expression of art. So we have to be bound by scenery or things, that is, to draw the image of the mountain, so how can we deeply express its artistic conception? Therefore, it is called "the false road of mountains and rivers". Stick to the surface of the object, do not deeply understand the internal changes of the "quality" of the object, and describe the ever-changing mountains and rivers with constant pen and ink, that is, "constant and suitable". From the Zen point of view, all of the above are so-called "promising" methods, not "inaction" methods, so it is impossible to reach the extraordinary realm.

"I am famous for not being dazzling, because I have the merit of being cultivated." The meaning of these two sentences is that as long as people work hard, raise their awareness, be knowledgeable and show their true talents and practical learning, they will become famous one day. This is the role of the so-called "cultivation".

"The operation of life contained in the world has been influenced by the quality of mountains and rivers, and it is viewed as ink transport. Then he was raised by Meng and looked at it with a pen. Then you are subject to life and watch the mountains and rivers ... "Everything in life comes from the truth of the universe. By observing the method of transporting ink, we can know how much we know about the "quality" of mountains and rivers. You can see at a glance how high your cultural and artistic accomplishment and intelligence are. How deeply do you feel about life? Ask them about mountains and rivers.

"Gu Sou, inaction. Then I will give you a promising job and look at it with a painting. " In ancient times, "Lao Xu" was interpreted as "seeing" and in Buddhism it meant "seeing chaos". Whether a painter is influenced by "seeing" can be verified by observing whether he has done "inaction". Whether or not to paint with a "promising" method can be known by measuring with a "one painting" method. Buddhist scriptures also call "Lao Xu" as the unit of time, that is, 30 Lao Xu a day and 48 minutes a night (another 20 Luo Yuan in Lao Xu; A Luo Qian 2.4 points, a Luo Qian 20 fingers; 7.2 seconds at a flick of a finger). In this way, time should be regarded as "inaction", that is to say, time is infinite and should not be regarded as finite. However, painting is promising. If you want to know more about the connotation of painting, you can only get its true meaning by taking "one painting method" as the criterion.

"Then you are subject to all kinds of paintings and look at them with your wrists empty." No matter what kind of theme works you draw, you always look at your skill with your wrist, but if you look at your empty wrist, it means that your skill is not good.

"If an outstanding person has any responsibility, he must first cast it and then apply it to the pen." To stand out from the crowd, people with this ability must first have superhuman talent and extraordinary talents, but also be good at all kinds of knowledge outside work and be knowledgeable before they can control this position.

"... but this man sincerely put forward the principle of being a man, treating one as ten thousand, treating one as ten thousand, and ... as a person, he has his own resources. "People who can reach such a high level will gain the mystery of life (universe, nature and society). If you are proficient in painting methods, you can get various methods, which are unified and inseparable from their ancestors. To understand the truth, this is the talent and capital to complete painting creation and innovation.

Shi Tao's Painting Quotations consists of 18 chapters, of which only 10 chapters are selected, and some popular explanations are made according to Buddhism and Zen thought.

There are different interpretations of Shi Tao's painting quotations at present. Mainly the understanding of painting quotations is different. For example, interpreting painting quotations with Taoist thought will inevitably attach its interpretation to Taoist thought. Explaining "painting quotations" with secular thoughts will also attach secular opinions.

If we want to comprehensively analyze the writing thought of Shi Tao's painting quotations, we can't explain them very accurately from the Taoist and secular perspectives. Because Shi Tao lived in the era of Daxing Buddhism in Kangxi, Qing Dynasty, Shi Tao himself was an authentic monk and had deep attainments in Buddhism and Zen. With his self-cultivation and the Buddhist viewpoint of non-interference between Buddhism and Taoism at that time, Shi Tao, as himself, will inevitably write painting quotations under the guidance of Buddhism and Zen, regardless of his specific environment or the dominant idea of writing painting quotations. Therefore, only by studying Shi Tao's painting quotations with Buddhism and Zen thought can we accurately reproduce the true colors of painting quotations and fully understand Shi Tao's painting art thought.