Showing posts with label Drongo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drongo. Show all posts

19 April 2025

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Passeriformes - Dicruridae - Dicrurus paradiseus (Cecawi Anting-anting Besar)

A large black drongo with a notched tail and long, racketlike outer tail streamers, a glossy neck, and an obvious crest that curves backwards. Juveniles are duller and often lack the tail streamers. Prefers woodlands and forests where it may be found associating with mixed flocks, other drongos, and birds such as treepies and babblers. Similar to other drongos when without tail, but combination of notched tail, crest on forehead and medium-sized bill set it apart. An accomplished mimic with variety of vocalisations including metallic jingling sounds.
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Pausing is not not acting, but delay could be setback too. 





* Daring to act - know when and how to act and react, to let go yet retain *
- know when to move, and when to retreat -





24 September 2024

Enough

Playground



My plot - not much needed for happiness




Gratitude is extendable



Style is subjective


 


08 December 2023

Skill's function

 



Good walkers have no rut [and] track.
Good speakers have no blemish [and] error.
Good counters have no counting bamboo slips.
Good lockers have no bolts [and] keys,
and not one can open [their locks].
Good binders have no rope [and] string,
and not one can loosen [their knots].

Therefore the holy man always in goodness saves men;
for there is no outcast man.
Always in goodness he saves things,
for there is no outcast thing.
This is called concealed enlightenment.

Therefore the good man, the one, the not-good man of,
is the instructor.
The not-good man, the one, the good man of,
is the capital.
[Who] not esteems his instructor.
[Who] not loves his capital,
though intelligent, greatly is bewildered.
This is called significant spirituality.




12 October 2023

Revealers of virtue


 

In olden time [who] well [were entitled] to be masters
the ones [were subtle], spiritual, profound penetrating.
Their profundity not could be understood.

Since not they can be understood,
therefore I try to make them intelligible.
Cautious! Oh!
[they were] like in winter wading a river.
Reluctant! Oh!
like fearing in the four [quarters] neighbors.
Reserved oh! they were like guests.
Elusive! Oh!
like ice which is going to melt.
Simple! Oh!
they were like unseasoned wood.
Empty! Oh!
they were like a valley.
Obscure! Oh!
they were like disturbed water.

Who can the disturbed by quieting it gradually purify?
Who can the quiet by moving them gradually bring to life.

Who keeps this Reason does not wish to be filled.
Since not filled therefore he is able to grow old [and need] not newly be fashioned.



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