| One day, Confucius was out for a walk with his disciples
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| And he saw an old man fall into a big mountain stream
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| And thought, «Alas, he is sick and old and tired of life and he is making off
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| with himself»
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| For below where the point where he fell in was an enormous cataract
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| And then, uh, rocks and rapids underneath
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| But suddenly, the old man appeared way down below the rapids
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| He crawled out of the stream, and went strolling along the banks
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| Confucius was amazed
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| And he immediately sent a disciple to run after the old man so that he could
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| talk to him
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| He said, «Sir, I thought you were about to make away with yourself
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| But I see now that you must be a spirit»
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| And he said, «No, I’m not a spirit, I’m just a perfectly human being.»
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| «Well, then how did you survive the cataract?»
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| He said, in no special way, «I just went in with a swirl and came up with a
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| whirl»
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| «I did nothing, I simply adapted myself to the nature of the world»
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| And so in the same way, we have, he’d connected with the Daoist
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| And Zen, early zen traditions
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| Many instances of famous monks who were quite mad
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| On the announcement for this series of workshops and seminars
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| There is a drawing of Hanshan
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| And he and his companion, Shide
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| As the Japanese say, «Kanzan and Jittoku»
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| They were two mountain hermits
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| Who are favorite subjects of Zen artists
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| This little light of mine
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| I’m gonna let it shine
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| This little light of mine
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| I’m gonna let it shine
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| Even if I die
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| I’m, I’m gonna let it shine
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| Let it shine
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| I will try not to acquiesce to the idealism I built in my head
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| Consumed by an inaugural address in the corner of a concrete room with
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| bittersweet lateral grooves
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| The remnants of this commencement dissipate through the trees and a forest
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| leading to the fountain of life
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| Where we’ll lose a fight when the continuum of life ceases to simply comply
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| with the energy we occupy
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| 'Cause when we’re alive it’s connected to our thoughts
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| Which means the energy can be connected to our love or our hope
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| And when we finally choke
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| The energy will move on and our swan song will simply be an echo
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| So we can let go
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| Hey John, this is a poem idea I have
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| I don’t know if I’ve fleshed it out enough
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| I don’t know if I’m saying more than I should
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| Without understanding it completely but I want you to hear this
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| God is a camera and if you’re not ready to show everything on camera
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| Then you should be — you should not be in the scene
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| I wanna be something, but I don’t want to feel the weight of accepting
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| responsibility
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| So I don’t drive down the roads where my dead friends used to live
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| I don’t drive by the house where my innocence died as a kid
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| I was supposed to be at the Church of Christ, not the Church of Vices
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| But now I’m afraid to love someone who isn’t like this
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| So I changed the radio station when they played the new Eminem featuring Ed
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| Sheeran
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| 'Cause I don’t need another white pop star collaboration to define my generation
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| Forgive me, friends, I created this world in my head
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| I’m sorry you have to live with it
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| Nah, scratch that
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| Forgive me, friends, I’m selfish
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| Call me back buddy
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| Bye |