Following your bliss
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
a beautiful poem by Mitsuo Aida
Because it has lived its life intensely
the parched grass still attracts the gaze of passers-by,
The flowers merely flower,
and they do this as well as they can.
The white lily, blooming unseen in the valley,
Does not need to explain itself to anyone;
It lives merely for beauty.
Men, however, cannot accept that ‘merely’
If tomatoes [...]