Treeleaf Art Circle: Enso

[Horin]

Thank you :-)


Gassho, Ben

St

[Meitou]

While i painted with my kids i had the idea to paint my first enso and give myself a try in calligraphy..

Gassho
Ben

Stlah

That's beautiful, worthy of framing. What does the calligraphy say?
Gassho
Meitou
Satwithyoualltoday lah

[Horin]

Thank you meitou, it says MUSHOTOKU :-)

Gassho,
Ben


St

[Junkyo]

Well you have all inspired me to give it a go. Here is my attempt at drawing an enso.

It is also my first time giving calligraphy a go. It is very calming!

Gassho,

Junkyo
SAT

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[Jakuden]

Beautiful! And thanks for giving me a reason to revisit this thread and live vicariously through you artistic folks for a bit.
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH


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[Meitou]

Well you have all inspired me to give it a go. Here is my attempt at drawing an enso.

It is also my first time giving calligraphy a go. It is very calming!

Gassho,

Junkyo
SAT

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Lovely! And yes, it's a very meditative practice.
Gassho
Meitou
Satwithyoualltoday lah

[Horin]

Well you have all inspired me to give it a go. Here is my attempt at drawing an enso.

It is also my first time giving calligraphy a go. It is very calming!

Gassho,

Junkyo
SAT

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Wonderful, i like that very much

Gassho,
Ben

St

[Jundo]

Junkyo's Kanji is Zen in Japanese modern script.

After some back and forth, I confirmed that Hishiryo wrote "Mushotoku" or "Nongaining," and he followed very nicely a model from Deshimaru Roshi ...

Here is Ben's:

Here is Deshimaru:



It is the mind free of all goal and thought of gain.

A funny thing is that it stumped several young college educated young Japanese I showed it too, who struggle both with "cursive" script in this age of smart phones, and obscure Buddhist terminology. Even when they saw the Deshimaru version, I had to explain to them what it meant. Now it is crystal clear, and he did a wonderful job ... even though he was not hoping to "gain" our praise!

Gassho, J

STLah