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if you are sincere
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in your heart
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everything succeeds
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water flows on
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the window is the place through which light enters the room
Exhibition
Water poem on concrete
2 Mar 2010 – 4 Mar 2010
Songshi artists colony
Address
- 1300 Wen Xiang rd.
- Songjiang
Shanghai - China
Water Poem on Concrete (water, the abysmal)
About
The Abysmal repeated.
If you are sincere, you have success in your heart,
Whatever you do succeeds.
Water flows on uninterruptedly and reaches its goal:
The image of the Abysmal repeated.
Thus the superior man walks in lasting virtue
And carries on the business of teaching.
Water reaches its goal by flowing continually. It fills up every depression before it flows on. The superior man follows its example; he is concerned that goodness should be an established attribute of character rather than an accidental and isolated occurrence.
A jug of wine, a bowl of rice with it;
Earthen vessels
Simply handed in through the Window.
There is certainly no blame in this.
In times of danger ceremonious forms are dropped. What matters most is sincerity. Although as a rule it is customary for an official to present certain introductory gifts and recommendations before he is appointed, here everything is simplified to the utmost. The gifts are insignificant, there is no one to sponsor him, he introduces himself; yet all this need not be humiliating if only there is the honest intention of mutual help in danger. Still another idea is suggested. The window is the place through which light enters the room. If in difficult times we want to enlighten someone, we must begin with that which is in itself lucid and proceed quite simply from that point on.
