Gordon Tseng, April 2012

The link to the song, Summer Snow in Formosa : http://www.indievox.com/song/46687 

Zhuangzi
Fly with him to outer space
To view the world’s ridiculous face.
Travel with him into your inner base
To enjoy nature’s original pace.

Laozi
Real and supreme morality is to follow nature’s simple rule.
All civilized forces and artificial actions are harmful and even cruel.
So, like water, a strong and wise man may look like a weak and humble fool.
With five thousand words, he founded a religion and a philosophical school.

Confucius
Having used his thoughts for a long time to get people ethically organized,
The rulers and the elders did their best to have his teachings realized.
Sincerely making human nature and innate love morally rationalized,
This teacher had let East Asia operate in his way of being civilized.

Mencius
He held that with the four beginnings, all men are born good and kind,
This reality of human nature is just what they have to know and find,
And, people are justified to overthrow the rulers who can’t find that lost mind.
Is this why political revolutions in the Chinese empire’s history never decline?

Lipo
Born a Taoist brandishing a sword under the wild pine,
He still could not easily cut and cross the Confucian line.
Unable to bring the cloudy world his political sunshine,
He freely rowed a boat with his sword into poetry and wine. 

Fly with Me

Fly with me.
Why do you just kiss in the dark street?
Oh, fly with me.
There is more to know though the lips are sweet.

Fly with me.
Say good-bye to the bees lost in flowers and trees.
Oh, fly with me
Over the mountains, across the seas.

Fly with me
Into wherever our minds can see.
Oh, fly with me
Beyond what our present being seems to be.

– All from GOD BLESS NOT ONLY AMERICA
by Gordon Tseng