snowdome truths
In ancient forms, the wind-swept lakes
Restrain by open principles.
Thus all association makes
The common basis of mistakes:
Holds certain changes false.
Entire, it has an inner judge.
When pigs and fish are least begrudged
Of animals and therefore grow,
It's difficult to extend them hate.
So the simple man, obliged to know,
Intelligently penetrates.
Good fortune! Order their minds with understanding,
Fear, and justice, so to gain appreciation!
Sympathetic! In highest remains dealing;
Circumstances much delaying;
springs abuse of such administration!
The whole secret depends on superior mildness.
The right way of bonds are community success.
If in this way one finds no obstacles without,
The force of inner truth must out.
One must first thieve the psyche of other,
For its aim left so strong a moral impression there,
To pardon and gain power over her.
It furthers one to cross the person
Before his influence can undertake
An insurmountable success to make.
China stirs water by execution.
Understand - even the most dangerous thing,
Since not invincible, it does not bring!
And so, difficult to influence,
Not identical with this case,
Contact furthers perseverance:
This system was not base.
Intimacy or secret is no reason
To speak, to act, without one's person!
As pig or fish or criminal,
But from superior clarity,
Approach dependability.
Limited, intractable,
Wind discusses understanding
Of all prejudice
And, so guided, everything
Together friends establishes.
Often doors have thus been closed,
Through being rid! Great when considered!
On what is right, on steadfastness,
When dependance among interest ceases,
Will influence his force of weakness.
Only tie oneself and point
To where true acts exist today.
Important personality
May triumph over creatures coined.
For anyone who's crazy enough to wonder where this came from: Coleridge's Kubla Khan provided the form; the Baynes/Wilhelm translation of the I Ching, "Inner Truth" provided the words.