| " You askwhy I perchon a jade green mountain | | | | not as a man, but a consciousness, enjoying simple |
| I laughbut say nothingmy heart freelike a peach | | | | beauty and feeling full of the essence of All There Is. |
| blossomin the flowering streamgoing byto the depthsin | | | | My spirit's free, I laugh and say nothing. I think and say |
| another worldnot among men" | | | | everything, all without the restrictions of being human. |
| Li Po was born in China in 701 and is considered one | | | | It's not every day I sit on my mountain, or float like a |
| of China's greatest poets. He grew up in the western | | | | peach petal down a cool clear stream of energy, but |
| region, but wandered in the eastern and central regions | | | | the days I do, I am living in a dream, that becomes my |
| of China throughout his life. His work is filled with an air | | | | reality. My focus is on another part of who I am |
| of playfulness, fantasy, and eloquence. | | | | floating in the clear stream of knowing. My life has |
| His work above caught my mind while reading a book | | | | many dimensions and realities, when I open my |
| of poetry and I thought it was wonderful. His allows | | | | consciousness and let them in. Li Po knew that and he |
| me the opportunity to see myself sitting on a jade | | | | experienced worlds that I am just beginning to |
| mountain or floating down a cool stream, with nothing | | | | understand 1300 years later. |
| but my thoughts. Alive in another world I see myself | | | | |