Blue-throated Bee-eater

Corasiformes - Meropidae - Merops viridis (Beberek Leher Biru/Berek-berek Rengkung Biru)

A bright green insect hunter with a long bill and triangular starling-like wings. Adult has a bright blue throat, orange-brown crown and nape, and long trailing central tail feathers. Sexes are alike. Juveniles have a paler blue throat, no orange-brown coloration, and no long tail extensions. Often hunts from exposed perches such as telephone lines or snags, on which it rubs its venomous quarry so as to disarm it. Call is a bright, inflected “chileep.”

(eBird)

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Coraciiformes - Meropidae - Merops philippinus (Berek-berek Zaitun Asia/Beberek Ekor Biru)

Elegant, slender bird of open country, frequently seen in flight or perched on exposed snags or telephone wires. Adult green overall, with blue tail, thin black mask, and rufous throat; bright rufous underwings visible in flight. Juvenile similar but paler, with tannish throat and shorter tail, lacking the adult's elongated central tail feathers. Flying bird has distinctive shape, with broad, sharply pointed wings, long tail, and long bill. Nests colonially in sandbanks. Voice a sweet, clipped “cheer-it,” sometimes given in series.

(eBird)

Life cycle

* Heaven's reason - the natural way is to reduce what' abundant, increase what's in need *

- do what's needful without claim and superiority -

Blue-throated Bee-eater

Corasiformes - Meropidae - Merops viridis (Beberek Leher Biru/Berek-berek Rengkung Biru)

A bright green insect hunter with a long bill and triangular starling-like wings. Adult has a bright blue throat, orange-brown crown and nape, and long trailing central tail feathers. Sexes are alike. Juveniles have a paler blue throat, no orange-brown coloration, and no long tail extensions. Often hunts from exposed perches such as telephone lines or snags, on which it rubs its venomous quarry so as to disarm it. Call is a bright, inflected “chileep.”

(eBird)

Of all sizes and stages, but of one focus and goal.

* Beware of strength - strong is not the mighty, the unyielding, the unbending *

- beware of the loud, the all-knowing -

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Coraciiformes - Meropidae - Merops philippinus (Beberek Ekor Biru)

Elegant, slender bird of open country, frequently seen in flight or perched on exposed snags or telephone wires. Adult green overall, with blue tail, thin black mask, and rufous throat; bright rufous underwings visible in flight. Juvenile similar but paler, with tannish throat and shorter tail, lacking the adult's elongated central tail feathers. Flying bird has distinctive shape, with broad, sharply pointed wings, long tail, and long bill. Nests colonially in sandbanks. Voice a sweet, clipped “cheer-it,” sometimes given in series.

(eBird)

Tireless, on the flight, sweet sound of success that goes bpup, bpup bpup

 

* Troubles in merit - avoid display and excess

- do not show off - 

 

Blue-throated Bee-eater

Corasiformes - Meropidae - Merops viridis (Beberek Leher Biru/Berek-berek Rengkung Biru)

A bright green insect hunter with a long bill and triangular starling-like wings. Adult has a bright blue throat, orange-brown crown and nape, and long trailing central tail feathers. Sexes are alike. Juveniles have a paler blue throat, no orange-brown coloration, and no long tail extensions. Often hunts from exposed perches such as telephone lines or snags, on which it rubs its venomous quarry so as to disarm it. Call is a bright, inflected “chileep.”

(eBird)

When it doesn't feel vulnerable.

 

*Easy by nature - be like water

- Act according to situation, it will come when it comes -

To cherish oneself

The people not are afraid of the dreadful,

the great dreadful will come, indeed!

Do not render narrow their place where they dwell.

Do not make wearisome their place where they live.

Now only when not they are made wearisome,

thereby not they are wearisome.

Therefore the holy man himself knows,

not himself he regards.

Himself cherishes not himself he treasures.

Therefore he discards the latter

chooses the former.

 

Returning to simplicity

 

[Who] knows his manhood,

[and] keeps his womanhood,

becomes the world's valley.

Being the world's valley,

the eternal virtue not departs.

He reverts [and] returns to [the state of] an infant child.

[Who] knows his whiteness, 

[and] keeps his blackness,

becomes the world's model.

Being the world's model,

the eternal virtue not is faulty.

He reverts [and] returns to

The unlimited.

[Who] knows his glory, [and] keeps his shame,

becomes the world's vale.

being the world's vale,

the eternal virtue then suffices.

He reverts [and] returns to simplicity.

Simplicity being scattered,

he then will make vessels [of usefulness].

The holy man utilising them,

then will make [them] officers [and] chiefs.

Therefore a great administration does not injure [cut, hurt].

Not-doing

"Not-doing"

Avoid extreme, excess, arrogance

Dream

Reality ... where dreams are too

 

In this world of dreams,

drifting off still more;

and once again speaking

and dreaming of dreams.

Just let it be.

Ryokan

(1757-1831)

what i am

need not display

need not, need not

just am

and the world is mine