Asian Brown Flycatcher

Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Muscicapa dauurica (Sambar Coklat Asia)

Plain brown flycatcher with a large-eyed appearance. Note bright white eyering and unmarked throat and underparts. Appears shorter- and plainer-winged than other similar brownish flycatchers. Favors broadleaf forests; also found in more open habitats on migration and wintering grounds. Sallies from exposed perches; cocks tail and flicks wings when perched. Song comprises high buzzy trilling and whistles. Calls include dry rattling and chittering.

(eBird)

Why hesitate - the door is as shut as the eye sees not.

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Muscicapa dauurica (Sambar Coklat Asia)

Plain brown flycatcher with a large-eyed appearance. Note bright white eyering and unmarked throat and underparts. Appears shorter- and plainer-winged than other similar brownish flycatchers. Favors broadleaf forests; also found in more open habitats on migration and wintering grounds. Sallies from exposed perches; cocks tail and flicks wings when perched. Song comprises high buzzy trilling and whistles. Calls include dry rattling and chittering.

(eBird)

Ubiquitous yet nature's singular.

* The universal function - how the softest, non-action, non-word works

- do not underestimate any appearance, any act - 

 

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Muscicapa dauurica (Sambar Coklat Asia)

Plain brown flycatcher with a large-eyed appearance. Note bright white eyering and unmarked throat and underparts. Appears shorter- and plainer-winged than other similar brownish flycatchers. Favors broadleaf forests; also found in more open habitats on migration and wintering grounds. Sallies from exposed perches; cocks tail and flicks wings when perched. Song comprises high buzzy trilling and whistles. Calls include dry rattling and chittering.

(eBird)

* Skill's function - what's true skill

- continuous learning - 

 

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Passeriformes - Muscicapidae - Muscicapa dauurica (Sambar Coklat Asia)

Plain brown flycatcher with a large-eyed appearance. Note bright white eyering and unmarked throat and underparts. Appears shorter- and plainer-winged than other similar brownish flycatchers. Favors broadleaf forests; also found in more open habitats on migration and wintering grounds. Sallies from exposed perches; cocks tail and flicks wings when perched. Song comprises high buzzy trilling and whistles. Calls include dry rattling and chittering.

(eBird)

 

* Of non-existence the use - form and substance; frame and hollowness

- Appreciate silence, non-appearance, blank space - 

Trust in virtue

The holy man has no fixed heart.

In the hundred families their heart he finds his own heart.

Good ones I treat with goodness them.

Not good ones I also treat with goodness them.

Virtue is good.

The faithful ones, I treat faithfully them.

The unfaithful ones I also treat faithfully them.

Virtue is faithful.

The holy man lives in the world,

cautiously, as cautiously dealing with the world.

He universalises his heart.

The hundred families all fix upon their ears eyes.

The holy man all treats as children them.

 

Increase through humility

 

The crooked the will be perfect.
The distorted then will be straightended.

The empty then will be filled.

The worn out then will be renewed.

The having little then will obtain.

The having much then will be bewildered.

Therefore the holy man embraces unity,

[and] becomes the world's model.

Not himself he makes seen

Therefore he is enlightened.

Not himself he asserts,

therefore he is distinguished.

Not himself he boasts, therefore he has merit.

Not himself he approves, therefore he lasts.

Forasmuch as he will not quarrel

therefore the world not can with him quarrel.

Of yore that which was said:

The crooked then will be perfect,

that by any means [is it] a false saying, indeed?

Truly perfected [they will be]

and return they [will].

Be stingy with wars

"Be stingy with wars"

What is against Tao always comes to an end.

 

What echoes?

What echoes?

 

Present

 

Present ... to or not to

Mountain dwelling

Things of the past are already long gone
and things to be, distant beyond imagining.
The Tao is just this moment, these words:
plum blossoms fallen; gardenias opening.

Ch'ing Kung

(d.1352)

Caught

Caught ... a lost consciousness

Sixty-six years

piling sins,

I leap into hell - 

above life and death.

T'ien-t'ung Ju-ching

(1183-1228)

 

When it's unnatural

Why am I out and down here, where shadows fall and offers are staged.  I do not need this but sometimes I fall to my impulse for ease.

 

Do you see what I see

 

Seek the natural in light and in shadow.

A little moment

A little moment, a little movement, a momentous decision.

 

Don't linger

 

Don't linger down there, the view is better from here up.