Life Is Never Black And White

While doodling with my brush writing as I was thinking what to write…

1 朝霧深鎖紫泉客 Enshrouding the Purple Pools is a morning guest of mists and fog,
2 世外桃花紅塵隔 And separated by the red dust are peach blossoms beyond this mortal world.
3 人生長短真假夢 Lives may be long or short and so dreams be real or false,
4 恩怨是非非黑白 Whether in grace or regret, be right or wrong, all are neither black nor white.

1 Purple pools are fairy pools for their waters exhibit a slight purplish aura. Someone must have literally or figuratively one otherwise such things would never have existed in the vocabulary.

2 Referring to the story of the peach blossom spring. Red Dust is a term for the mundane world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peach_Blossom_Spring.
https://www.dharmadrum.org/portal_e2_page.php?cnt_id=19&up_page=2

3 Dreams are like when Oscar winning actors telling the audience to follow one’s dream. For each Oscar won, many more unknown dreams are dashed and lives wasted away in pursuing false dreams. Buying a lottery ticket does not guarantee a winning chance but not buying one, guarantees zero winning!

4 The crux of the poem is that everything in life is never black and white.

Wednesday, January 18, 2023