• Jul 2
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樸

pu describes pure simplicity or rawness

as in the rawness of an untouched tree

+ its from that rawness of simple nature

that everything that exists was born

+ its in that rawness that tao can act

+ tao is the universal truth

its what creates all the things that are real

including us but excluding the things

we create to distract us from rawness

like nuclear warheads or ice cream cones

the things that make the world more empty

the things that change the rawness around us

things like untruthful art are poisonous

your laptop is filled with dead ancestors

Written by Sean Wai Keung.

Published in you are mistaken, The Rialto, 2017. Sean's collection is available from www.therialto.co.uk

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