Editor | Li Jing, Zhang Kankan
When Yuan Miao was young, she had a wish: Don't live past forty. Because I saw the sighs and worries of my mother's generation, the beauty of women was squeezed to the edges and corners at that time, and the rest was repeated under the polishing of trivial days. No, she doesn't want to live this lifeless life.
I don't know the beauty of the big life system. Sometimes, what you are fighting for may not belong to you, but what you are trying to refuse is the road you are destined to take.
Before the age of 40, he was the documentary director of the International Department of China CCTV, and devoted himself to shooting many documentaries related to humanity, nature, religion and environmental protection. Life is good, family is happy, and life is dripping with honey.
At the age of forty, after losing her son, resigning and divorcing, she drifted to the United States and meditated.
After forty, she refused all kinds of drastic changes in her life, such as death, separation, dispersion and extinction. Later, she learned to go with the flow naturally, followed the clear guidance in her heart and went to the United States, and naturally set up the "New Century Foundation" to spread the phoenix energy: the ancient oriental wisdom that integrates joyful yoga, Sanskrit singing and spiritual painting.
I came to America more than ten years ago and met Diana, a painter friend.
What I remember most is that she often wears two socks of different colors on her feet, and there are some strange things in the studio, such as a homemade "flying machine". Sometimes she hangs on it to draw pictures, like a dragonfly on the water. Recently, a "big coffin" similar to unearthed cultural relics has appeared, which is full of colors. She infiltrated the canvas into the big coffin and let the color "ferment".
Besides, her hair is half white and half purple. In this French bleaching and dyeing thinking, she thinks about the gossip of the Book of Changes every day. She also traveled across the ocean to Huairou, Beijing, and built a set of Yijing Bagua Jiugong on the roof of Shangyuan Art Museum at her own expense.
I introduced her like this because she taught me to paint, because for a person who is known as a "spiritual artist", even if the painting level is not good at all, you should understand the basic truth of being a man, that is, "a drop of water is rewarded with a spring."
About ten years ago, I said to Diana, "You paint the light, you paint the phoenix, you paint this, you paint that ..."
She said, "Tell me, what is it like?"
I can't say clearly, and then she said, "I can't draw it." Draw it yourself. "
After that, I kept describing my "seeing" to her, and she always replied, "Draw it yourself."
Finally, six years ago, I went to her studio and said to her, "From today on, you are my teacher and teach me." She smiled and said, "I promise you won't learn." Then put a fruit and a vase and say, "You will draw this in three days."
I picked up a pencil and stared blankly at the fruit and vase. Diana said, "Observe their proportions, light and shade and structure." Said quickly and skillfully drew a few strokes. I said, "I want to take your plane."
She said, "I studied art in Italy. How many years did it take me to become like this? You have no foundation, why do you want to fly? " I always feel something is missing when I look at the vase. Finally, I poured water into the vase, put a flower in it, ate the fruit, and then painted with my heart for a long time.
Diana looked at it and said, "Like a big pineapple with leaves … I can't teach you, you have graduated."
Go back to China and say hello to my friend Yang Yang. Do you know any painter friends? I want to learn some basic knowledge. Yang Yang said that one of her classmates was a painter and agreed to introduce her.
A few days later, I "saw" a middle-aged man in a suit and glasses in my dream. He came up to me with a smile and an antique key in his hand. This key looks like copper, just like the one used by the older generation in China. He gave me the key and the whole dream disappeared.
After getting up in the morning, I got a call from Yang Yang, saying that the painter's classmates wanted to see me. Then the painter named Mr. Ran Wenji (also an entrepreneur) appeared kindly in a suit and glasses. Although he didn't have the key in his hand, he said, "I know someone who can teach you this kind of person without any foundation." He is my teacher. "
Soon I met Mr. Liu, and he asked me to draw something casually with a brush, so I did, looking like a dancer. Teacher Liu said: "This kind of play is a bit interesting." After that, I went to Singapore and Malaysia and changed planes in Guangzhou before returning to the United States.
Teacher Liu worked tirelessly and flew to Guangzhou for three days to teach the basics of ink painting. His important teachings are as follows:
Painting is not like painting. "Chaos" painting is reasonable, and your "painting theory" is naive. "Play" is also a painting theory. Many people can't accept this painting theory, and painting is dead.
What you draw is ideas and spiritual energy, which many painters can't draw. Although there is no skill in your painting, your childlike innocence and super-conscious spirituality can help a lot.
False biography of thousands of books, true story. Teacher Liu's words support me to play spontaneously! When we are born, we will naturally breathe, smile, sway and make natural sounds in our mouths, but can we paint naturally?
Painting is another form, which shows our interest in nature and curiosity about life! A mental state lacking interest and curiosity is old age, and children's vitality and joy come from their curiosity and interest. Practicing spiritual yoga is a panacea for returning to nature and rejuvenation.
Entering the corresponding combination realm of yoga, breathing becomes "wind" and falls into the line. When the "wind" melts into color, the color will shine, and the light energy will drive away the dark clouds of the soul. When the "wind" melts into water, the water will naturally combine energy in the right place along the circle.
In such a time and space, you let your thoughts cover each other. This tangible phenomenon is called yoga painting, which is called "Shakti Yantra" in Sanskrit. "Shakti" is cosmic energy, and "Yantra" refers to symbols or figures with super-conscious spiritual energy, which can free people from bondage and have super-conscious spiritual shock waves similar to mantras. Both can lead the mind to a more subtle level.
In another sense, "seeing" melody and harmony is very interesting, which can be said to be a high-energy affair with the universe!
Some pictures with sound are a combination of mantras and yangtra. I hope you like them. I am a free color outside the circle of painters and a natural voice outside the circle of musicians. I live in the realm of "water". Water flows into my eyes as "painting", into my ears as "singing" and into my heart as "love".
—— Excerpted from the preface of Yuan Miao's "Music and Painting with Superconsciousness".
Let's praise the negative and positive energy in the universe. Return to a simple child state, a sensible and blessed child, please praise Mother Universe and Father Universe on behalf of all your ancestors. This is going back to the source.
No matter how many things happen in our lives, what is the greatest purpose of people living? It's alive. The basic state of being alive is one breath. Take a deep breath and slowly shift your attention from observing small faults to observing one breath at a time.
That year, I went to Lijiang to climb Yulong Snow Mountain to see the rainbow, listen to the groom singing on the ancient tea-horse road and watch the shaman's blessing ceremony. I lived in the ancient city and found a Dongba paper. I think this kind of rough paper made by hand with snow-capped plants may be more suitable for carrying the prayers of snow-capped mountains. I brought some of them back to America and created these Dongba paintings.
I once closed in a place called Baja.
Baja is an archipelago located in Mexico, with rich marine ecology, and its Moon Valley and primitive Indian village sites also have their own characteristics.
On a closed day, I once saw a huge phoenix fall from the sky and land on a mountain top. Its long phoenix tail blends with the sunset glow. It stretched its head across the plains and rivers until it appeared in front of me and stared at me beautifully and calmly. ...
The ancient oriental tradition has the same myth and legend about "Phoenix Nirvana".
Let the phoenix in your life be reborn from all kinds of ashes! Then "Tailai" is the phoenix soaring. ...
There is a secret in the hair. A corolla woven from Darkening's hair is a beautiful romantic story among all kinds of legendary treasures in the world. It not only respects the spiritual evolution carried by father, essence and mother, but also has far-reaching significance. Like the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Yarlung Zangbo River, it flows from the source to the sea.
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