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Hawk doesn't think during the hunt.
It does not care for theory or ethics.
All that it does is natural.
Animals live simple lives close to Tao. They do not need to think or reason: They never doubt themselves. When they are hungry, they eat. When they are tired, they sleep. They respond to the cycles of the day according to their intuition. They mate at the proper season, and they nurture their young according to their own understanding. When they die, they fall under the teeth of predators or the dispassionate turning of the seasons.
By contrast, we as human beings depart from the natural norm, and worry about ethical action. Extremes of behavior have become more varied, running the gamut from the sadistic to the moralistic. Tao considers all this artificial and unnatural. Why divorce ourselves from nature?
The follower of Tao prefers to live completely in concert with Tao, avoiding the interference of theory and excessive thought. Though one must first learn skill and ethics thoroughly, one must come to embody them so completely that they become subconscious. Reacting to a situation by asking what is right and wrong is already too slow. One must intuitively do what is correct. There should be no foreshadowing of an act, nor doubt about oneself.
intuition
365 Tao
Deng Ming-Dao
Daily Meditations
li jin
Crows
Chinese ink and color on rice paper
26 x 26 in
tao water gallery
www.taowatergallery.com
li jin was born in 1958 China, and graduated
from Tianjing Academy of Fine Arts
in 1983 with B.A. degree of Chinese Painting.
Now he is teaching and living in China.
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