Year: 2025 
Dimensions: 42.3×18.3 cm 
Title: Excerpt from Sitting in Oblivion
Medium: Metal frame, silk brocade, and imported paper finished in full gold leaf
 
Content：
When all mental arising is annihilated and no more difference is made between “right and wrong”,one can forever discard awareness and knowledge and enter the state of blind stability.However,if one gives free rein to all mental arising and does not attempt to tame and control it,then one is not really different from ordinary people.If one only annihilates the judgment of good and evil without giving the mind a direction for return,lets it float and wander around in dissolution and relies on stability to come naturally,one only deceives oneself.On the other hand,if one goes on attending to all one’s affairs and yet claims to be free from defilements,then this reveals great goodness in words,but highest error in deeds.All serious students should therefore be especially warned against this.The key here is to put confusion to rest without destroying the radiating mind,to guard stillness without getting attached to emptiness.Practicing like this continually will bring about the natural attainment of perfect vision.
Colophon & Signature：
Excerpt from the Sitting in Oblivion (Zuowanglun) by Patriarch Sima Chengzhen of the Shangqing in the Tang Dynasty. It speaks of the preciousness of life, asserting that nourishing life is best achieved through cultivating the Dao, and cultivating the Dao relies on quieting the mind, for which there is the method of ‘sitting in Oblivion.' Wang Yunyun in the seventh month in the year of Yisi.