Forgetting the self When he was in his sixties Wang began to use the style names Jianzhai (" steadily more abstinent ") and Jiansou (" steadily older"), and carved a seal for himself with the inscription: "Steadily older and more mature, steadily more mature and more detached, steadily more detached and closer to what is plain and natural."
忘我之境，始為天成耳順之年以後，王壯為自號「漸齋」，自稱「漸叟」，為自己刻了一印：「漸老漸熟，漸熟漸離，漸離見近於平淡自然。」