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Mother Cow's Companion
02:24
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Translation:
Daughter, you are a grown-up now as we parents have raised you with care
As we are going to separate soon, Mother truly can't bear the sorrow
Daughter, you will have to serve the rice bowl for another family in a few days
When you live in their home, you must be obedient to your in-laws
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Chapter 33
03:51
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Those who understand others are wise / Those who know themselves are in the light / Those who overcome others are powerful / Those who overcome themselves have strength / Those who are content are wealthy Those who take action have will / Those who do not lose the Tao are everlasting / Those who die but do not perish continue to live
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Li Bai
15:32
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...But draw a knife to cut the stream; the stream only flows the faster...
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Soomi Line
04:15
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"...The new administrator was cruel as a wolf or a tiger and his heart was as venomous as that of a snake. A certain Ch’en A-tsao not being able to endure the ill-treatment jumped into a sugar caldron; Lien A-hsing suffering from a bad leg and unable to work, on being forced to labour hanged himself; Liu Pai-jen was flogged by the administrator till he spat blood and died..."
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Question now what became before Is it the same or will it always be a tragic demise of the innocent and wise or is there some kind of hope that the pure days we foresee will be the ones that come to be Now question how that glorious deed is done Summon the spirits from the earth and the air Let them tell us to prepare for the war that's born within Skin rubs off and what remains? The human color of our veins - by Jen Shyu
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Thinking back, you, the respectable elders, are all lucky stars/ To be strong and brave is a fortune/ Today, we see each other, smiling, embracing/ I wish you a healthy life of 120 years/ Thinking back, we come to this earth temporarily to have a good time/ Do not labor yourself just to make money/ If you destroy your health, you’ll have nothing to lean on/ Stay young and fresh, and you’ll have no worries/ Thinking back, we come to this world that is full of warmth/ Don’t care too much about money; it will make you worry/ Stay relaxed, and you will love the world more/ I wish you a healthy and satisfying life
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Elliptical / Wayward Son
07:19
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Bright moon in the sky, light shines here before my bed/ In dream do I ask could be frost upon the ground I raise my head to gaze at the clear moon/ I lower my head remembering my old home - By Li Bai.
...Who can say that the heart of an inch-long grass will repay the sunlight of full spring? - By Meng Jiao
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Lunation
06:18
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In somnium
I had a dream.
I had a dream awake:
bisection, thirst
CAUSE and MANIFESTATION
MIND in a two-gender belly
announcing the power of CREATION
craving for ejaculation, fecundation, TRANSFORMATION
revolving into FORM: LAW
as limit of SPACE: door
I had a dream.
I had a dream awake:
As clock, NATURE’s calls
PATTERNS of ups and downs
all in form of clay
and THE ALL all would attain
as water, vapor and rain
CHANGE would always remain
the last would be the first,
the first would be the anxious
and GOOD things come to those who…ARE)
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Leo Strong
05:17
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Opening the fear I fear what it was (what it will be) and I have found it to be nothing
Begin the journey early in your plan to live. Evil – ills Away again! Pressed inside of peace I would undermine wrongdoing and keep on proving…
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Vision of the eye[I] inside sees what you cannot sight internal sees the raw ruins of the earth tell us truth about the past your intuition enters into the liberation of age race or caste revolutionary cause conquering the ego ground by nature's own laws foregoing the time mind slips in and out of the awareness of the hour rhythm and rhyme permeate the soul moving even the stillest body righting the inevitable wrong - by Jen Shyu
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Moon Night Sorrow
05:13
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...Deep night alone thinking of my love the autumn cicadas cry moonlight shines before this tree such pain its shadow brings to me My heart aches inside I can feel the tears running down my cheek. Ah! What a meaningless moon night….
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Jen Shyu New York, New York
Guggenheim Fellow, USA Fellow, Doris Duke Artist, multilingual vocalist-composer-multi-instrumentalist-actor-dancer JEN SHYU has produced 8 albums, performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art & is a Fulbright scholar speaking 10 languages. Her Song of Silver Geese was among NYTimes' Best Albums of 2017. Co-founder of mutualmentorshipformusicians.org & a Steinway Artist. ... more
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