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photo linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Immortal_in_Splashed_Ink.jpg The painting Drunken Celestial (泼墨仙人图) was painted by L iang Kai (1150-？）, a Chinese painter lived in Southern Song Dynasty. This painting is stored in the Palace Museum in Taipei now. Referring to the Zen Buddhism, philosopher Alan W. Watts stated: For in Taoism and Zen the world is seen as an inseparably interrelated field or continuum, no part of which can actually be separated from the rest or valued above or below the rest. It was in this sense that Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, meant that “fundamentally not one thing exists,” for he realized that things are terms, not entities. They exist in the abstract world of thought, but not in the concrete world of nature. Thus one who actually perceives or feels this to be so no longer feels that he is an ego, except by definition. He sees that his ego is his persona or social role, a somewhat arbitrary selection...
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