The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, while moving in the deep course of Prajnaparamita, shed light on the five skandhas and found them equally empty. After this penetration, he overcame all pain.
"Listen, Shariputra, form is emptiness, emptiness is form; form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. The same is true with feeling, perception, intention and consciousness.
"Hear, Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; they are neither produced nor destroyed, neither defiled nor immaculate, neither increasing nor decreasing. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form,
feeling, intention, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind;
no forms, sounds, smell, tastes, touches, or mental objects; nor is there the realm of the eyes, up to and including the realm of mind consciousness.
There is no ignorance or ending of ignorance; up to and including no decay and death or ending of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination of suffering, no extinction of suffering, and no path; no knowledge and also no attainment.
"Because there is no attainment, the bodhisattvas, supported by the Prajnaparamita, find no obstacles for their minds. Having no obstacles, they overcome fear, liberating themselves forever from illusion and realising perfect Nirvana.
All Buddhas from the past, present, and future, through reliance upon Prajnaparamita, arrive at full, right, and universal Enlightenment.
"Therefore, one should know that Prajnaparamita is a great spiritual mantra, a great wisdom mantra, a supreme mantra, an unequalled mantra. It destroys all suffering because it is the incorruptible truth. A mantra of Prajnaparamita should therefore be proclaimed. This is the mantra:
After perfecting his artistic style for the last 30 years Master Wong is looking to exhibit and sell his work, an artistic expression with spiritual resolve and self perfection, illustrating a Taoist artistic style which has inspired humanity over the last 1000 years, both culturally and spiritually, from the peak of the Tang Dynasty.
Master Wong expresses the interrelationship between Taoism and Buddhism's thoughts and ways of seeing reality. Master Wong has intertwined his Yellow Dragon martial art with his creative philosophy. Master Wong aims to combine the best of Eastern and Western philosophy in his artwork.
One main technique, that accentuates his Taoist artistic style is the splash ink method, originated from Wang Qia, the Tang Dynasty. The paint is spontaneously and subtly controlled: understood by the Taoist as a hypnotic state that highlights momentary existence and non existence - expressing the sentiment of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra that form is emptiness and emptiness is form, thus, depicting man's relationship and interconnectedness with the cosmos.
Master Wong developed his talents as an artist, into the spiritual realm by developing as a Taoist Master. When Master Wong was a young artist he did not merely want to be an artist, but rather sought to develop a deeper state of consciousness from his lifeexperiences, and so to create a deeper profundity in his artwork when returning to his practise.
“....spend ten years observing bamboo, become bamboo yourself, then forget everything and paint.” Martial arts, Taoism and Buddhist training for over 30 years has meant that Master Wong has come to the point of self realisation where he is satisfied to express himself as an artist.
Master Wong's Taoist view integrates imagination with actuality through the most intangible forms, such as clouds, trees, mountains, mist, ocean, waves and formless scenes of nature. Through these forms the viewer can be inspired to unlock and open their minds and hearts to an enlightened view of reality.
This contrasts the misinterpretation and misunderstanding by modern abstract artists who lack true spiritual understanding by expressing an outward inner urge that is more metaphysical angst, compared to the floating harmony of Master Wong's metaphysical certitude and direct existential grasp of reality. The purpose is to inspire and place the viewer in touch with their innate spiritual nature opening up their desire for knowledge and enlightenment.
There is no East and West in Master Wong's work: everything is part of nature, so, he uses the medium, the more Western tradition of oil and canvas in order to convey the artistic styles more akin to Chinese philosophy. Master Wong's sentiments of the universal philosophy of human nature should have no limit. It does not therefore matter if it is a Chinese or Western technique, these are merely tools and through the creative spirit this is what should unite not culturally divide people.
When the Master uses the finger to point at the moon the student should not just be looking at the finger. The finger is just a tool pointing to the direction. Painting is the same, the medium that is used is not important, it is the mental expression behind the art work that gives a picture its spirit.
As the Zen expression goes: “Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss the heavenly glory of the sky.”
Long time no see - on my recent trip to Seattle I met Grandmaster Lu for the first time in quite a while! You can see a little video clip of the event by clicking on the image below:
Master Simon Wong has released his book of 42 unique paintings. Get your copy from the unique Master with the unique style!
Master Simon Wong is breaking new ground, mixing dance sounds and eastern philosophy. From trance to ambient, electronic to drum and bass, Master Wong's music has the philosophy and power to make your mind peaceful, unlike a lot of other mainstream music today.
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Master Simon Wong's album: Dancefloor Mantras Kalachakra
is now live if you would like to buy, download and listen to tracks.
"Master Wong is a magician" Muzik
"Innovatively fuses East with West... hypnotically cool" DJ
"Played the album all night in the car and back at the flat... fantastic" The KLF
"A different flavour of Eastern spice" Front magazine
Master Simon Wong performed at Boogaloo 1st October 2007. You can see more clips from the night at Yellowdragon TV
Master Wong is the Founder of Yellow Dragon Fist Kung Fu, a 7th Generation Master of Bamboo Forest Temple Mantis, Master of Small & Large Circle Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan, the UK representative of 100 Day Chi Kung and is registered 8th Black Sash with the AMA. Master Simon Wong is also a Master of Tantric Buddhism and Chinese Astrology, and is the leading Feng Shui expert in the UK.
Yellow Dragon Kung Fu
Master Simon Wong has released his book of 42 unique paintings. Get your copy from the unique Master with the unique style!
Master Simon Wong’s artworks have been very well received by the artistic community especially Artmesh an excellent online artists site, with many very positive comments. (To join Artmesh please e-mail us for an invite)
Dear Master Wong, I am impressed by your style and I really love some of your paintings. They are very inspiring. Would you except a connection? I would be very grateful.
Many thanks
Have a nice day
Silvia
Dear Master, I just return from a tour in your site, I'm very impressed, you are doing a great work on all stiles. I will love having your input on my paintings, I think we have some similarity in our type of work. can I put you on my contact list?
Best regards
Devorah
Josefina Muslera, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Your paintings are spiritually beautifull. -Intuition, makes me feel the Idea of Spirit in eternal movement without formal separation. The human body is not there in a -carnal way- but spiritual as Nature. I could feel very far -distances- like If I could be watching (flowing the air) everything from the top of an enourmous mountain at the same time very closer like watching a wild and small flower with my hand. Beautifull.
I hope you were enjoying this special day
This essential handbook from Europe's leading Feng Shui Master covers the Chinese astrological year: 4th Feb 2009 - 3rd Feb 2010.
It has the following information: -
- how to arrange your home and office for success this year
- month by month chinese astrology forecasts for each of the 12 animal signs
- month by month advice on how to maximise the good areas and minimise the bad
- a complete day by day chinese calendar for the entire year, showing good/bad days, suitable and unsuitable activities, and the best times each during day to do important things.
- the Year God talisman to protect Rat, Horse, Chicken and Rabbit people against the negative effects of the Year God (Jupiter). Being in conflict with the Year God causes many problems, and in combination with other factors can even be fatal.
- feng shui articles by Grandmaster Lu and Master Wong -
- how to use feng shui to find a compatible partner
- flying star feng shui and chinese astrology analysis of world events in 2009 - a great deal of fascinating background information on Feng Shui, Chinese Astrology and Chinese philosophy.
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We all make something. Some make excuses. Some make differences
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not.
We must fight for the people who can not fight for themselves
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern — will never be enough. Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family grief’s and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the “Church” do so because they were not in far enough.
We have the peculiar spectacle of a nation which, to a limited extent, practices Christianity without actively believing in Christianity. We are asked to turn to the Church for our enlightenment, but when we do this we find that the voice of the Church is not inspired. The voice of the Church today is the echo of our own voices. And the result of this experience, already manifest, is disillusionment. . . . The way out is the sound of a voice, not our voice, but the voice coming from somewhere not ourselves, in the existence of which we cannot disbelieve. It is the task of the Pastors to hear this voice, cause us to hear it, and to tell us what it says. If they cannot hear it, or if they fail to tell us what it says, we laymen are totally lost. Without it we are no more capable of saving the world than we are capable of creating it in the first place. Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.
I will live my life as an expression of the principles I believe in: empower, inspire, lead, learn, love, forgive, have faith and live.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now; you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
As in nature and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles, and in what seems hard dealing God has no end in view but to perfect our graces. He sends tribulations, but tells us their purpose, that "tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope.”
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely you know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, "Alright I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.
To be human is to be vulnerable - this I must accept. My invincibility lies in my ability to not let the emotional and physical setbacks in life conquer me. I may be vulnerable to the experiences, but I'm invincible in my resolve. I'm unconquerable. And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor and starving become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the hereafter.
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief, and, most of all, fear.
Taking risks means reaching out in spite of fears and anxieties. We cannot expect our anxieties to just disappear. Only after we experience reaching out are anxieties and fears apt to diminish. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
The rest of your life is a long time and whether you know it or not, it's being shaped right now. You can choose to blame your circumstances on fate or on bad luck or bad choices, or you can fight back. Things aren't always going to be fair in the real world, that's just the way it is, but for the most part, you get what you give. Let me ask you a question. What's worse: not getting everything you wished for or getting it and finding out it's not enough? The rest of your life is being shaped right now with dreams you chase, the choices you make and the person you decide to be. The rest of your life is a long time and the rest of your life starts right now.
Our lives improve only when we take chances ... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Your problem is never really your problem; your reaction to your problem is your problem. Become significant to yourself... Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one
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NEW MUSIC, HERE & NOW!!!
Just wanted to let you know I've been hard at work in the studio for my long overdue sophomore album, and have just posted a new track for you to preview. The song is called "SLOW ME DOWN" and it's a demo that I did at home, co-written by the very talented Johnny Reid! I am so excited about the new album that I just couldn't wait to share SOMETHING with everybody, so I hope you enjoy this little "sneak peak"!!
I look forward to hearing from you about the track, and encourage you to check out the new pictures I've put up.
Hope you are having a great week!
Cyndi
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