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A green bird darting in the night.
Will you be able to see it?
Will you be able to catch it?Cling to Tao like a shadow.
Move without a shadow.
Times of oppression and adversity cannot last forever. How is the transition bade to new and better situations? In the midst of great difficulty, a tiny opportunity will open, if only by chance. You must be sharp enough to discern it, quick enough to catch it, and determined enough to do something with it. If you let it pass, you will be filled with regrets.
Stick to Tao like a shadow. Wherever it goes, you go. As soon as it throws something your way, catch it by sheer reflex. It is like the bird: If you try to catch it, you will miss. If you are always with it, moving at its speed as much a part of it as its own shadow, then it is easy to seize it.
When you act, however, you in turn must have no shadow. In other words, what you do must leave no messages, no leftover consequences, nothing that will haunt you later. That is one of the ways in which you avoid creating more bad situations for yourself: Your every movement is traceless.
opportunity
365 Tao
Deng Ming-Dao
Daily Meditations
The following is an English version
of German text, translated from Chinese.
The farmers from Jinshan, a
section of the suburb of Shanghai, are excited about drawing.
Already in the end of the '70s
and beginning '80s did they attract attention
A Small Village
by CHEN Huifang
You may enjoy some of the
wording! Thanks to a member for the translation. xo
Without having attended real
art schools, but with their own sense of aesthetics,
their sense for colours and
their very own imagination.
and have become known worldwide.
A section, crazy with their naïve art projection,
has since won uncountable
prices.
A-Prize at ³The Excellent
Art Works Exhibition of Chinese Peasant²