A Painter's Daily Cultivation

Wang Guiyi was a painter who had been knocked around by life time and again. Divorced, in debt, and bullied by his foreman, at thirty-five all he had left was painting walls and the occasional hike in the wilderness.

One day, he found a jar of lilacs, as if fossilized, wedged inside a cracked wall. Starving, he chewed one, and his Heavenly Eye burst open.