Exhibitions — Liu Wei-Kang

映現心中護法願

文/ 果東法師(法鼓山方丈)

在恩師法鼓山創辦人聖嚴師父帶領下，法鼓山從草創至落成開山，一直到興辦法鼓大學(今法鼓文理學院)，各項理念與建設推動的背後，實有各界居士大德以其專業及智慧，共同護持成就。法鼓山榮譽董事會名譽會長劉偉剛菩薩，正是這樣一位護法居士。

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偉剛菩薩曾先後擔任法鼓山法行會執行長、榮譽董事會會長，整合各界菁英的力量，協助推動「大好年」、「好願在人間」等社會關懷運動;計畫執行法鼓山奠基大典、落成開山等大型活動，並為籌募法鼓大學建設的「5475 大願興學計畫」，悉心投入，全力以赴。

我與偉剛菩薩認識二十多年，在我心中，他是個兼具率真、熱忱且要求完善的理想家，又是直抒胸臆、直言不諱的行動家。他講求效率、重視細節，有時竟也「六親不認」，即使向聖嚴師父建言，亦復如是。他曾向我分享，有時因社會議題，與師父分持不同看法，言語間不慎冒犯師父。但在幾天後，他會再去向師父懺悔，而師父總是給予體諒、包容。師父捨報後，這份懺悔心只有愈深、更切。

2012 年底，偉剛菩薩因身體因素住院調養。為了承先啟後，仍持續承擔榮譽董事會會長一職，直至 2013 年底卸下，轉為名譽會長。由於靜養的因緣，使他開啟人生新契機，重拾以往的所學專長，投入藝術創作。

《華嚴經》云:「心如工畫師，能畫諸世間。」二十多年來，偉剛菩薩對於法鼓山團體的投入，有感恩歡喜，有懺悔省思。當他提起畫筆，繪出心中的聖嚴師父及法鼓山，更映現出那份護法的願心。

每個人各有心靈成長的軌跡，偉剛菩薩拾起畫筆，同時提起自我成長的心路歷程，使我看到一個人擁有的無限潛能。而今集結近年創作的油畫作品，透過畫展與社會大眾分享，果東除了感佩讚歎，更致上由衷的感恩與感動。謹以「開發佛性，提起覺性。轉化個性，淡化習性。淨化心性，回歸自性。」與眾共勉。

Under the leadership of our beloved teacher Master Sheng Yen, the entire process of Dharma Drum Mountain’s initiation to inauguration, through to the establishment of its Dharma Drum University (now “Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts”), is thanks to the expertise and intelligence of many lay supporters from different walks of life who helped promote our ideals and facilitate the construction. Stanley Wei-kang Liu, honorary president of DDM Honorary Board of Directors, precisely personifies such a patron of the Dharma.

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Liu has served as chief executive officer of DDM Dharma Practice Society and president of DDM Honorary Board of Directors. He helped bring together efforts of professionals in different fields to promote the “Great Good Year” and “Good Vows Light up the World” social campaigns. He was in charge of planning and carrying out large-scale events for DDM, such as the foundation laying ceremony, the inauguration ceremony for DDM World Center for Buddhist Education, and the 5475 Fundraising Project─a great vow to establish Dharma Drum University.

I have known Stanley for over twenty years. He is a genuine, enthusiastic idealist, striving to achieve perfection, as well as a sincere, straightforward activist who speaks his mind. He is efficient and attentive; an honest man who sticks to the truth, even when it comes to making suggestions to the Master. Once, he shared with me that he had sometimes unwittingly offended the Master due to differences in opinion when discussing certain social issues. A few days later when he repented and apologized for his tone of voice, the Master would always show understanding and tolerance. This inner sense of reflective repentance has grown all the more intense since the Master’s passing.

Towards the end of 2012, Stanley was hospitalized for treatment. To inherit the past and inspire the future, he continued the position as president of the honorary board, until the end of 2013 when he decided to serve as honorary president instead. However, this period of recuperation reopened an opportunity for him to pick up painting, his past specialty, and devote himself to artistic creation.

The Avatamsaka Sutra (Flower Ornament Sutra) says, “The mind is like a painter, able to portrait any object.” For more than 20 years, Liu has committed himself to engage in the endeavors of DDM with joyful gratitude and repentant reflection. When he picked up painting to depict Master Sheng Yen and Dharma Drum Mountain as reflected in his mind, I saw his very aspiration to support the Dharma even more evidently.

Everyone has a different route to spiritual development. Liu picked up painting as much as he took up his own path of cultivation, allowing me to see the infinite potential of an individual’s mind. Now, as he collected and compiled his works of oil painting created over the past few years to share with people in our society, apart from admiring and praising, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude and appreciation for his efforts. Here I would also like to share with you my motto of practice: Develop our Buddha-nature, awaken our awareness. Transform our character, change our habitual patterns. Purify our mind, return to our true nature.