Mok, Hei-Sai
Founder of the Centro de Educação Artes Hon Mak in 2017; dedicated to promoting calligraphy education and responsible for providing calligraphy teacher training for primary and secondary school teachers; former high school Chinese teacher; writing teacher and poet of modern poetry.
Also known as Ieng Ut (pen name); co-founder of Macao Outersky Poet Association, the first internet-based poetry-sharing platform created in Macao in 2002; author of six poetry anthologies including Idle Days Are Not Bad at All, The Confirmed Matters and Lips, with some of his works collected in the anthology, Post-1980s poets of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
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Hanshan Deching, renowned as one of the four Buddhist masters in the late Ming dynasty, gave equal weight to Buddhist doctrines and meditation. The eminent monk focused on the Huayen school of dogmas and the meditation practice leading to true enlightenment. The gatha Guan Xin Ming from him, its content being doctrinal essentials for meditation practice, addresses the involvement of body and mind in the practice and the critical importance of understanding the role of mind (the heart).