LESSONS FROM "MONK THAT COMES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN

NEITHER FORSAKE NOR ABANDON

It’s a Wonderful World, there’s light and darkness

The Sun and the moon, All plants worship the Sun.

Even tree rings take its shape

Flowers turn towards the light, Yet Animals chase the moon

Animals are active at night

When the moon is full, it electrifies them

We’re Animals, too, with a trace of Sun in our eyes

Sadly they shine with hatred

Unlike other Animals, Apes have eyes that take the sun

They can stare at it, it make them wise and strong

 And able to run like the wind

Whether we practice by day or night

It is to achieve that speed, change the speed

And you change nature

My friend and I trained together, him by the Sun, me by the moon

So many years in the mountains

In bitter cold and blazing heat, it almost broke us.

We came close to dying, then we suddenly heard the wind outside

As the earth, whistling, thunder and lightning, as the coupling of Yin and Yang

I could hear grass growing, flowers blooming, snowflakes falling

We’d master it, as I came back to life, I grasped the truth of Ape Strike

I saw how grass can move rocks

How even birds fly thousands of miles for food,

They always find their way home

‘SUCH IS TO NEITHER FORSAKE NOR ABANDON’