The Watercourse Applied 101.

If memory serves, it was Alan Watts, a master teacher of the Watercourse Way, who noted that between the first and last breath life on this planet is a collection of rule-based games. Play any of them you want, but pay close attention to the ones that begin with “...take all the following rules seriously.”

Play but take time to listen. The Watercourse flows in the veins of the ears at the same moment the rain, the river and tear drops become the ocean. That, is serious.

The Watercourse Way

The Way, cannot be told,

Lao Tsu told, only in

Yang's simile –

one true metaphor.

The Way, the is-ness, of things

“is” as water flows.

Water flows in one

direction: Its direction.

Paints but leaves no trace.

A mind of its own

never does not ever think.

Inquiring minds want.

With no intent, wanders.

Searches but finds not,

finds but does not use,

knows no thing, knows everything.

Silent, always speaking.

Tone deaf, it creates symphonies.

Illiterate, writes

perfect Haiku and novels

Swedes translate to gold.

To name this Way –

its name is Tao –

is Yang's great temptation,

to put into a box that for which

there is no box. To stand under

that which cannot be understood.

Always learning teaching

the waves of life's winds.

North Star, Southern Cross.

The lad was full of metaphor.

He himself, we ourselves: metaphor.

Walking.

jb