Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-Chia
With a little food and a walking stick
I climb the stream path toward home.
Frozen water lies still,
frost brightens the bamboo.
Moon or setting sun, I can’t tell which,
and I walk on into the dark.
Here the quiet takes hold of me.
Yes and no, this and that, fall away;
thinking and silence become one thing,
and that oneness heals.
- Hsieh Ling-yun (385-433)
. . .
A walk up a mountain towards home
Adjusting to the quiet tranquility
Unity, thought and silence woven together
Makes for deep healing.
- Journal reflection.
. . .
After “Journaling as a Tool in the Creation of a Life” is published in a few days, the next section of the Journaling Meditations binder will be a revised edition of “Wild Waters and the Tao”. Originally published in 2013, it quickly sold out and we’re finally getting around to republishing it.
It looks at the Tao from the perspective of a river runner living a solitary life in a backwoods cabin.
We’ll offer the new edition, Wild Waters, Wild Nature and the Tao, for pre-order as soon as we have a firm publishing date. Probably the end of the month or early November.
More on the Journal Meditations binder and section inserts:
Meditation and Journaling: Tools in the Creation of a Life here.
