Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

Cuculiformes - Cuculidae - Surniculus lugubris (Sewah-sawai Biasa)

A small, slim black cuckoo rather similar to Black Drongo but smaller, with a curved bill. Adult black with white bars in the undertail, shorter-tailed juvenile deep blackish gray with bright white dots in wings and flanks. Rather sedentary and difficult to see in tangled vegetation of scrubby and edge habitats in lowland and foothill forests. Song a loud, vibrant, rapid series of ascending hoarse whistles.

(eBird)

All at par yet there is oversight in familiarity.

 

* To gain insight - Tao offers the way, why use by-paths *

- understand what's primary, what's secondary -

Troubles in merit

 

On tiptoe one not stands.

Being astride one not walks.

A self-displaying one not is bright.

A self-asserting one not can shine.

A self-approving one has not merit.

A self-praising one not grows.

Their [relation] with Reason, indeed, is called offal of food,

an excressence in the system:

beings are likely to detest them.

Therefore [who] has reason the one does not dwell [rely on him], indeed.

Impediment

Impediment ... a matter of circumventing

The moon

abiding in the midst of

serene mind;

billows break

into light.

Dogen

(1200-1253)

 

what is given, what is received

sheen, gloss

strikes, burns

encase of wealth

nature's endowment

 

Hold on to something

Hold on to something, anything

that will flood, will bury you

that when you emerge

your heart will sing

even as your tears flow.

Not one, not alone

Not one, not alone

even as shadow lengthens

I reach out

You reach out.

I go where the sun shines

I go where the sun shines

but I will not forget the darkness

I look for the sun

because I've known darkness.

What is not

What is not
What should not be
Laugh, and love,
It is, will be.

There was no Beauty

Bird tale:
There was no Beauty
till You came,
still I thought none
I looked but I did not see.

Waiting

Bird moment:
Waiting
I hear my heartbeat,
A smile or a laugh,
It's from my heartbeat,
I am not waiting, no longer.

Encounter

Bird moment:
Encounter
It's not about you,
About me
confronting my reality.

"He who can no longer pause ...."

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

--> Albert Einstein