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Take a Look!

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Finally getting up-to-date with my beloved art world after school/fun-business. Thought I'd share some pieces I've fallen madly in love with... tran nguyen "and the world came tumbling after" tran nguyen --- this is often how my I imagine my brain alex young "latex" ---- paint splatter beauty magic!! alex young "nina kate" alexey malina "flowers" (series) david polumba "strawberry popsicle" ---does it get sexier than this? serena cole "black reign" --- copper and painting john brophy "barometric" --- a real think-piece best ever "implosion" tessar lo "beyond the flowers" brandi strickland "everything i need is where i'm going" ---how I envision strong women brandi strickland "secret source" ---- collage magic! byroglyphics "bebecalyx" ---haunting june leeloo nimit malavia "carry all that i am able" ---incredible shading

汪氏菴僧 The (Naughty) Monk of the Wang Clan Cloister

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Outside the walls of Huizhou three li, Gentleman for court discussion Wang’s family ancestral grave cloister was there. During the Xiaoxing reign, he invited the monk Huihong to live there and administer it. The monk just ate heartily and peacefully sat and did not chant sutras or make praise to the Buddha. In regard to offerings, he burned incense and did it as briefly as possible. He was merely able to restrain himself, and did not make other mistakes. In the master’s house above and below all was accustomed to this, and this was preserved for twenty years.  In Gandao 2 nd year he was sick and died, and the Wang clan buried him at a nearby mountain. Originally there was a great mulberry tree and its branches were flourishing. Several months later it suddenly withered and died. After a rain, mushrooms grew, and a Wang servant tending goats passed by it, saw its plump white brilliant radiance, and plucked it to present to the master. If fried in the usual fashion, the taste was diffe