Sample KU-CHE by Beth Fairchild (good books for 7th graders .txt) 📖
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entices it into bloom.
A caterpillar navigates a branch
searching for the perfect spot to pitch its cocoon.
A woodpecker taps the trunk in its own hungry search.
Roots feeling the weight
of all that depend upon them
burrow deep and wide.
In satisfying their thirst,
They give life and support.
I look upon the tree
but I do not see it
until I see
that when I sit in its shade
it too gives to me.
Sun and wind
leaf, bloom and branch
trunk and root
caterpillar, woodpecker and I—
we are all one.
—Ha-Tē, 1st CE.
22.1
Practitioners of
Being in the Way (Mu-Chē)
are like a high broad dam
that obstructs
the river's natural flow.
Commentary
Mu-Chē was the name the Ku-Cheans gave to the male dominated religion that came to power in the Bu-Hu (Time of Sorrow). Mu-Cheans referred to themselves as the Cho-Zŭn (To rule). The Mu-Chean Profits and Yz-Gīs advocated and helped enforce the expansion of the No-Sā order that blocked all outward forms of communication by females. The Mu-Chē were being in the way of good ol’ girl talk.
2.2
Blocking
the natural flow
accumulates and stores
negative energy.
Commentary
Obstruct the airway and suffocation follows.
Pinch the nerve and pain erupts.
—No-Won (ca. 2nd c. BCE)
Damming a river bed will obstruct the natural flow of water, causing the river to back up. But ultimately, nothing can stop the river. The higher the restricted water rises behind the dam; the greater the pressure becomes. Either the pressure must be released, as with a spillway, or the dam will eventually burst, washing away everything in its path.
2.3
Negativity
is the
energy of destruction;
it only appears to
create things like
the ocean of commotion,
where no matter
the wind or the tide,
one never comes to the shore.
Commentary
Many caring people attempt to make the world a better place by expending great personal energy fighting things that threaten to do some perceived harm. Engaging in and being invested in negating the negative, we incrementally and inevitably add to the negativity around and within ourselves. Our peace becomes collateral damage in our fight against the big bad thing that we fear will overtake us. Changing our focus to see the good and building upon it builds better relationships, better communities and also betters ourselves.
2.4
Thus,
the one
who blocks
or obstructs
is a dam nuisance.
Commentary
AMEN!
ImprintText: Beth Fairchild
Editing: Shira Nahari
Translation: Beth Fairchild
Publication Date: 03-15-2013
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