Your ‘Way’
Maintain, safeguard and contemplate only this:
your house; those of your kin; and those
of all other ranks
(including those that some may consider
subordinate).
Such exuberance is your way
and there is nothing more to be heard
among the cracks and fissures …
or to otherwise be respected and
admired.
That ‘you’ is like a precious stone or
beautiful pure gem –
beauty and elegance in the form of a
perfect sphere.
To anxiously hop along looking for
something to cling to
is like being about to open the bamboo
fence and enter swirling water
(territory that is known to be
destructive and shattering).
It is a foolish leader that stridently
ignores the warning call of birds singing together
only to subsequently come into contact
with boiling water, rotten food or urine
and then complain.
A period telling fortunes, divining or
taking an augury is akin to:
creating a bed made of tree branches;
graduating with the skills to blame,
reproach and negate;
or,
attempting to postpone that which must
be started or arranged
(such as reading, travel, being idle,
administration, being tender or composing poetry).
Those who look after children –
irrespective of whether they are tutors,
wet nurses or mothers
(even if they go by another name) –
model endlessly …
just as they did in the past
(including that which is majestically
virtuous and bland, lame, weak and feeble).
The outstanding, fine, excellent and
brave
may be showy or appear in relatively
generic form,
but they wield only the weapon
‘prosperity flourishing and thriving
through unity, rational inquiry and teaching’.
This is your way –
it is all that is to be respected or
admired in your heart,
clung to with great desire
and carried into old age …
not taking pot-shots at others, penises,
hookahs,
mythical fantasies, cake or second-rate
father figures.
That is a peculiar way to be amicable …
physical and spiritual nourishment
is related to enduring
temperate inner wisdom. |