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By James Gredell
Tall Pines
Tall Pines Lost Clouds Dew Mist Bark Moss Dear Deer Beauty Everywhere Purple Clouds Heavenly Floating Drifting Clouds one by one
Hermits afar Hermits so near time stops slowing down this so fast beautiful Spinning World. Deep Caves Tall Chanting Mountains Art of Quietism so near so dear entering embracing the way the road the path way of no roads just natural steps and natural
Zen flute By Jia Senghe five holes and a hollow bamboo stalk a well-fashioned mouthpiece and I’m ready to ride the clouds
breaths one by one hermits just following the art of wu wei and art of breath control so simple yet so hard to do so just be try not to take life so serious poets love tea and rice wine and herbs Beauty inside and outside.
Whisper in the groves
By Jia Senghe
resting quietly in this bamboo grove I can hear the early masters whispering in the leaves
The Empty Vessel — Page 18
