Easy by nature

 

Superior goodness resembles water.

Water well (in a good way) benefits the ten thousand things,

yet not it quarrels.

It dwells in all the people their place which is loathed.

Therefore it approaches to Reason.

For a dwelling it chooses the [level] ground.

For a heart it chooses the eddies.

In generosity it chooses humaneness.

In words it chooses faith.

In government it chooses ability

In its movements it chooses time. [rhythm]

Forasmuch just as not it quarrels,

therefore not it is rebuked.

"As you wish."

"... just as it is ...."

"... wabi ... when you are not well-off, you have no thoughts about being so; ...."

 

On an intent

On an intent
motley stunts,
Charmed!

Here, there, this or that

Here, there, this or that,
Thought unperturbed,
Splendour.

I see from afar

Bird tale:
I see from afar
I think from afar
and think I'm right,
truth in a bubble.

"We need the tonic of wildness ...."

We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

--> Henry David Thoreau