MASTER SHEN-LONG

Lighting up all beings’ enlightenment 燃燈, 2007

Ink and mixed media on polyester and cotton fabric

72 x 59 in.

Collection of the artist, 2007.14

Inscription:

空靈丕變成大化,化造平凡點蒼生,

無量錘鍊生極造,無邊機鑰養含真。

易生天地化兩儀,不變無極播紅塵,

但將性天下寰宇,歸元不二且燃燈。

神龍三年寫無極燃燈圖一幅寄興

                                               海西神龍

                                                         逍遙

                                                              堯

Inscription:

Primary purity through radical change to become the universe (the natural world),

Nature (as the mother of all things) as uneventful to enlighten the common people,

To attain the perfect state through countless hammering to shape and refine,

Boundless opportunity keys to nurture the unaffected inherent quality.

Book of Changes from limitless Heaven and earth as two complementary forces of yin and yang,

The Ultimate of nothingness has no variation to sow the human society.

However, taking the inherent pure nature goes down to the universe to teach,

Going back to primary one Buddha-nature and to ignite the enlightenment light.

Third year of Shen-Long to write this ultimate painting of Lighting up the Enlightenment Light to express my own ideas.

                                                                                                       Shen-Long of the Western Sea

                                                                                                                                               Xiao-Yao

                                                                                                                                                      Yao