Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Arizona
Volume 2, No. 10: September, 2010
Japanese Acupuncture (480) 246-0624
600 N. 4th Street, Unit 147, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions
Chapter Two
Heart: Joy, Arrogance, and Transcendence #10
I would like to end the Heart Element with the following simple poem by Wang Wei.
独坐幽篁裏 sitting alone in quiet bamboo forest
弾琴復長嘯 playing an instrument, breathing deeply
(Qi Gong)
深林人不知 in the forest, nobody knows my presence
明月来相照 only the luminescent moon light shines upon
at the Bamboo Lodge (竹里館) 王維 (Wang Wei)
Unlike Du Fu (杜甫) I wrote about in my last newsletter, Wang Wei was talented in being a bureaucrat. Common to the both is that they were once arrested in the turbulent time and almost died. Wang Wei loved the quietude of nature and he left many master poems praising mountains and waters (山水).
I like this poem because of its simplicity and the realization: deeply in meditation, reflecting on his life, accepting AS-IS-ness. It tells us that the transcendence is an acceptance: very simple.
Through out this chapter, I mentioned about the nature of emotions and how to overcome and transcend beyond. However, when come down to the core, we understand that it is the simple lifetime wisdom of acceptance with a pure heart. Trick here is how do we achieve the pure heart? We need to let go everything we hold dear and be content in the instance of this realization. Namaste.
Epilogue: What is the sound of one-hand clapping? Zen Koan
My answer: the sound of the wind
What is yours?
© 2010 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC
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