by Lilith Ohan | Mar 1, 2014 | Blog, Sumi-e, TAO Teaching for Artists
Verse 2 When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises When it knows good as good, evil arises Thus being and non-being produce each other Difficult and easy bring about each other Long and short reveal each other High and low support each other Music...
by Lilith Ohan | Feb 20, 2014 | Blog, Sumi-e, TAO Teaching for Artists
Verse 1* The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth The named is the mother of myriad things Thus, constantly without desire, one observes its essence...
by Lilith Ohan | Jan 30, 2014 | Blog, Sumi-e, TAO Teaching for Artists
Happy Chinese New Year On the dawn of the Chinese New Year (the year of the Horse), I have decided to take a big challenge. I am going to try to interpret Tao Te Ching (or Dao De Jing), the ancient Chinese text by Lao-tzu. This will also help me to re-visit the...
by Lilith Ohan | Jan 1, 2014 | Sumi-e
Well, it is New Year tomorrow! So what have I learnt? The year has bought me many present moments and also lost in the thoughts moments. So, Lesson 1. Paint and paint more. Here is where one is in the moment, here is where one finds the true self, unaffected by...
by Lilith Ohan | Nov 27, 2013 | Sumi-e
I have read somewhere a Zen quote, can’t find the author…which goes something like this; “ Everything ordinary is extraordinary”. Indeed, everything around us is fantastic. Our mind takes the repetitive events, images, thoughts of the world...
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