Mind like still water, all things appear.
Oil on canvas 2025
Oil on canvas 2025
Duality unfolds not as opposition, but as mutual appearance and mutual dissolution.
The world does not reflect consciousness.
Consciousness is the true mirror.
We are not images in the mirror,
but the mirror itself,
recognizing itself within this fragment.
Within the image, viewing quietly becomes an encounter.
Like flowers in a mirror, like the moon reflected in water.
Meaning gradually recedes.
Consciousness enters into flow,
entering the invisible current of the source.
The blue vortex resembles submerged water,
where dreams take form.
Mind like still water, all things appear.
In Tibetan Buddhism, the phenomenal world (samsara) is understood as a manifestation of dependent origination, rooted in ignorance.
Dzongsar Rinpoche describes the world as dreamlike—illusory, yet appearing real;
its essence being emptiness, an ineffable reality beyond concepts.
Emptiness is not nothingness, but the source of all possibilities.
The image appears suspended in a realm beyond words.
Light does not point.
Illumination does not occur.
Awakening unfolds in silence.
A spiritual sheltering field emerges.
Unnamed emotions and frequencies are held.
Viewing slowly returns to itself.
Water reflects the moon.
Shadow reflects light.
Within gazing, echoes arise.
An unspoken inner space unfolds.
Objects recede.
Vibration remains.
Stories dissolve.
Gazing comes to rest.
Meaning is no longer pursued.
Consciousness continues to enter,
entering the invisible current of the source.
Mirror and moon.
Reflection and projection.
The purple light-body reveals the boundlessness of emptiness.
A small point of light rests at the turning of the breath.
Observation takes place here.
The blue vortex is both submerged water
and the manifestation of dreams—an unnamed abyss.
Colors gently bleed into one another.
A non-dual intermediary zone emerges,
like a faint glow of awareness drifting within impermanence.
Ascent and descent are no longer opposed.
Ascent, the form of meditation.
Descent, the circuit of return.
Within the axis-like rhythm of breath,
everything takes form in silence.
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能所双泯，
不是两个东西相遇然后界限消融——
而是发现，那个“两个东西”的前提，本来就是一个错觉。
观者的到来，不是赋予意义——而是发现阻碍从来不存在。
“我”试图握住“非我”——这本身，就是那只攥紧的拳头。
困住你的从来不是墙壁。
松开时，既无拳，也无掌，只有敞开本身。
本来无一物，只是照见。
而这一刻，
连“照见”也一并寂然。
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The world does not reflect consciousness.
Consciousness is the true mirror.
We are not images in the mirror,
but the mirror itself,
recognizing itself within this fragment.
Within the image, viewing quietly becomes an encounter.
Like flowers in a mirror, like the moon reflected in water.
Meaning gradually recedes.
Consciousness enters into flow,
entering the invisible current of the source.
The blue vortex resembles submerged water,
where dreams take form.
Mind like still water, all things appear.
In Tibetan Buddhism, the phenomenal world (samsara) is understood as a manifestation of dependent origination, rooted in ignorance.
Dzongsar Rinpoche describes the world as dreamlike—illusory, yet appearing real;
its essence being emptiness, an ineffable reality beyond concepts.
Emptiness is not nothingness, but the source of all possibilities.
The image appears suspended in a realm beyond words.
Light does not point.
Illumination does not occur.
Awakening unfolds in silence.
A spiritual sheltering field emerges.
Unnamed emotions and frequencies are held.
Viewing slowly returns to itself.
Water reflects the moon.
Shadow reflects light.
Within gazing, echoes arise.
An unspoken inner space unfolds.
Objects recede.
Vibration remains.
Stories dissolve.
Gazing comes to rest.
Meaning is no longer pursued.
Consciousness continues to enter,
entering the invisible current of the source.
Mirror and moon.
Reflection and projection.
The purple light-body reveals the boundlessness of emptiness.
A small point of light rests at the turning of the breath.
Observation takes place here.
The blue vortex is both submerged water
and the manifestation of dreams—an unnamed abyss.
Colors gently bleed into one another.
A non-dual intermediary zone emerges,
like a faint glow of awareness drifting within impermanence.
Ascent and descent are no longer opposed.
Ascent, the form of meditation.
Descent, the circuit of return.
Within the axis-like rhythm of breath,
everything takes form in silence.
-
能所双泯，
不是两个东西相遇然后界限消融——
而是发现，那个“两个东西”的前提，本来就是一个错觉。
观者的到来，不是赋予意义——而是发现阻碍从来不存在。
“我”试图握住“非我”——这本身，就是那只攥紧的拳头。
困住你的从来不是墙壁。
松开时，既无拳，也无掌，只有敞开本身。
本来无一物，只是照见。
而这一刻，
连“照见”也一并寂然。
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