Calligraphy 

Beautiful handwriting Cloud and water

We should develop the softness of clouds and the fluidity of water.
It is through conscious writing, engaging both body and mind, that we can rewrite ourselves.
Rewriting ourselves allows us to change the characteristics that are ours and that prevent us from being in harmony with beings and things.
The ancient Greeks spoke of «kallos graphein», or «beautiful writing».
Writing is above all about expressing our true nature, that of images, signs and codes that humans used long before language.
Expressing ourselves through the gestures of writing forces us to enter into the silence of our thoughts because, at the very moment we write, the past and the future no longer exist. The time of wandering and scattered thoughts comes to an end.
Time is thought, with a «before», the «past«, and an »after«, the »future".
Here, with every stroke of the pen, time is constantly renewed.
Renewing ourselves allows us to break free from repetitive and exhausting memories.
In this sense, writing is equivalent to the Buddha's Assisi.
The attitude of the body and mind must be correct; body and mind are fully engaged to the point that writing penetrates us and rewrites us.
By rewriting ourselves, we get to know ourselves. It's like standing in front of a mirror and contemplating ourselves.
Through writing, we can correct ourselves and observe all aspects of our mind. When we write, we do not seek to be good calligraphers or to achieve «beautiful handwriting».
It is simply a matter of giving letters their true character and our minds their true space of peace and happiness. Writing will become beautiful on its own when our disruptive obstacles transform into clouds and water.

This style was borrowed from the American Spencerian and Zanerian styles, which themselves were based on the English Copperplate and French Ornamental Uncial alphabets.

«Cloud and water» is our nature in this world, for all things are empty by nature and flow away without leaving a trace.