If existence is a burden
Then
Routine can replace thought
It’s not difficult to stop thinking, to cease having your own opinion. Just follow the crowd and do what everyone else does. Then you will become truly deaf and blind.
*Note: In Chinese, the words for ‘lobster’ and ‘deaf-blind’ have the same phonetic sounds.
In a dream, a mountain wind blows
Far away, an ode to autumn skies is sung
Dreaming versus reality is only last night’s struggle
Temporary and eternal just a difference in numbers
The cicada larva, having been underground for many years finally comes above ground and bursts out of its former shell to experience a short, but colorful new life. When the cicada emerges from its golden larval shell, it is pure white and almost translucent.
Coincidentally, in Chinese, the words ‘cicada’ and ‘Zen’ have the same phonetic sound.
Hush! Don’t make a sound…
The wind is whispering
The legends of nature
Have faded into a concrete jungle
Night’s starlit skies
No longer glitter
The calling of the wilderness
Can only be heard
In distant dreams
“Don’t say that I take advantage
It’s you who gives me the opportunity
This may just be a small thing to you
But you’ve provided me with paradise.”
—— A contented cockroach
There is a simple principle
If you smile, then I smile, too
There is an unchanging direction
If you swim, then I swim, too
There really isn’t much to say
Days with love
Are spent this way
Lifetime is condensed to this one instant
The universe reduced to this one point
Designing a mantis isn’t hard, since real ones tense up and stops moving when a human is close, providing a perfect opportunity to measure its length and observe the angles of its body. To provide realism, the hind legs of these paper mantises are wrapped with wire to keep them standing upright.
Sounds melt into silence as the sun’s rays disappear
Night walks out of the black darkness
All brilliance returns to modest commonness
Except for the dazzling stars in the sky
A song
Achievement
A beautiful evening