Blossom

Blossom, Sunday 13 April 2003

To know Tao

meditate

and still the mind.

Knowledge comes with perseverance.

The Way is neither full nor empty;

a modest and quiet nature understands this.

The empty vessel, the uncarved block;

nothing is more mysterious.

When enlightenment arrives

don’t talk too much about it;

just live it in your own way.

With humility and depth, rewards come naturally.

The fragrance of blossoms soon passes;

the ripeness of fruit is gone in a twinkling.

Our time in this world is so short,

better to avoid regret:

Miss no opportunity to savor the ineffable.

Like a golden beacon signaling on a moonless night,

Tao guides our passage through this transitory realm.

In moments of darkness and pain

remember all is cyclical.

Sit quietly behind your wooden door:

Spring will come again.

~Loy Ching-Yuen

Universal Language

I’m looking for words and can’t seem to find them. I can’t write, not because I’m blocked coz I ain’t, I just can’t find the right words. At times words seem so meaningless, empty almost. I feel like they don’t communicate what I would like to communicate. This has nothing to do with a certain language, actually it’s a universal language I’m talking about. One that is capable of traveling distance and time, one that doesn’t need any definitions.

Definitions made up by humans to make us understand our own complexity of words. Isn’t that hilarious? Why is it that everything in this world needs to be explained [read understood]. Why can’t we just accept things the way they are and try to speak that universal language instead, so distance and time wouldn’t be an issue. Words and definitions wouldn’t be an issue either. If only we could trust in the power of faith and that bigger plan that the universe has in mind for us. Things would be so much easier…

So I’m not going to try to write things down, I just know it won’t come out as I want it to. Instead I have been creating again, something I forgot about for some time. The urge was there: my hands were itching to get started and change words into colours and shapes, depths and heights… It’s the most wonderful feeling: to go through this process and be excited to see the final result: something beyond words although they’re still there, just hidden and only readable for those who know how to obtain meaning and understand…

A life-time is not what’s between,

The moments of birth and death.

A life-time is one moment,

Between my two little breaths.

The present, the here, the now,

That’s all the life I get,

I live each moment in full,

In kindness, in peace, without regret.

~ Chade Meng