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