Zen Art: Mu Qi’s Six Persimmons
<p>This is Chinese Zen master Mu Qi’s famous 13th-century painting of six persimmons. Notice that there’s no table and no shadows. It’s groundless, like the mirror-mind or groundless condition of all things–what Zen Buddhists like to call <em>groundlessness</em>. The floating persimmons also feel timeless and unplaceable.</p>
<p>The persimmons on the edges are empty. Like thoughts arising out of and returning to the nature of mind, the persimmons appear to emerge out of and then return to the paper.</p>
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