Dusky Eagle-owl

Strigiformes - Strigidae - Ketupa coromanda (Burung-Hantu Bertanduk Kelabu Asia)

A very large, grayish-brown owl with yellow eyes and distinctive ears. Note the fine barring and dark streaks on the pale underparts, and white patches on the shoulders. In flight, wings and tail are strongly barred below. Perches in tall trees, usually near a water body, where it waits for birds and mammals to pounce upon. The call is a distinctive series of low, guttural notes that increase in volume and speed before trailing off towards the end.

In flight, in call, in silence

awesome, most awesome.

Stepping back, involuntarily

an unnatural shudder

One I could have reached, grasped perhaps

one smaller yet more awe-inspiring.

Spotted Wood Owl

Strigiformes - Strigidae - Strix seloputo (Hantu Carek Kafan)

Large owl with an orange face and big inky-black eyes. Adult is brown with extensive thin barring on the underparts. Juvenile is whitish, with barring all over the body. The closely related Brown Wood-Owl is much darker in adult plumage, with a thinly barred brown breast, and its juvenile plumage is whiter, relatively unmarked, with a more contrastingly dark brown face. Spotted Wood-Owl prefers open forests, and can sometimes be seen on fairly conspicuous perches, even when roosting. Hoots loudly and sonorously, with pairs frequently duetting.

(eBird)

Song of duality unspooked by intrusion.

 

* Humility's virtue - when the great yields to the minor, and the minor corresponds fittingly, both benefit

- benefit of action and awareness -

 

Return

Where do you go from here?

 

Comply with heaven

 

Well excels as a warrior,

the one is not warlike.

Well fights

the one is not wrathful.

Well conquers the enemy,

the one is not quarrelsome.

Well employs the people,

the one renders himself lowly.

This is called not-quarreling's virtue.

This is called the employing of men's ability.

This is called complying with Heaven.

Since olden times the most perfect.

Returning to purity

 

Abandon saintliness, relinquish prudence;

the people will benefit [increase] hundred times.

Abandon benevolence, relinquish righteousness;

the people will return to filial piety [and parental affection].

Abandon cleverness, relinquish gain;

thieves [and] robbers will not appear.

These are three things wherein to have culture is not sufficient.

Therefore let them hold that which is reliable

Recognise simplicity, embrace purity,

lessen selfishness, diminish desires.

 

Vulgarity's palliation

 

[When] the great Reason degenerates,

we have  benevolence [and] righteousness.

[When] prudence [and] wisdom appear,

we have great hypocrisy.

[When] the six family relations are not friendly,

we [the preaching of] filial piety [and] paternal affection.

[When] the state with its families is confused [and] out of order,

there are loyalty [and] faithness.

Propouding the essential

"Propounding the essential"

Know what you do not know, strive without contending, the Way may be a tough path but it does not injure.

 

a time of no time

a time of dis-content

a time of un-rest

a time of flight

a time of un-naturalness

a time of heart-drop

i return it to you

 

necessary opposites

entrances, exits

needs, wants

growing of one into the other

ascending, descending into consciousness.

no wins, no losses

 

a passing game

of big hearts

of small wins

of small losses

of changes, of letting go, of moving on

What darkness is not

I deal with intrusion but I cannot deal with fakery.  I am indifferent to flattery or worship.  I have been made to just be.  View me where I am.  Lure me out and disclosure may the end of me.  The dark is for me, though not the dark in your world.