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| The Eye Of Sting |
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1. Send Your Love- Sting
"Seeking a foothold for self, love finds a foothold for others; seeking light for itself, it enlightens others too." - Confucius
From Book VI in "The Sayings Of Confucius"
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I. The White Castle
The night cloud, the cliff shadow & Shengzi Li moved as one. The cusped moon watched & she spoke not one particle of sound. Her companions in the sky- the twinkling stars- threw particles of ancient light on the shadowed rock. Time- particles of sand in an hourglass- counted the steps of her vertical path. Then her twisting fingers of light touched the bamboo sill of the window. She listened to the song of the Princess. She heard the bray of the Mule. And the full moon threw her light in a shower of rice.
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1. Spies- Coldplay
Fan Ch'ih- "What is love?"
Confucius- "To rank the effort above the prize may be called love."
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From "The Sayings Of Confucius" Book VI
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I. The White Cliffs
She walked back through her window. Her young eyes opened wide at the sight of the forest of pagodas. Shaolin monks moved like water, flowing about the tall pagodas reaching to the sky. From millennia past, she knew the civilization of the Yellow Emperor. But now she lived in the present- the eternal moment of the here & now. This way of truth revealed itself to her. The Shaolin monks had only whispered in her ear. Their words flowed naturally like the water in a stream, or the wind in the trees & the moving clouds. There was no difference- only oneness.
She opened her eyes. Her door stood open to the world- but vacant. Magnifico peeked around the corner.
"My Lady, your thoughts flow pure as moonlight, & my interruption but a wandering cloud at night. But I bear good news!"
She smiled & then looked outside her window. The moonlight reappeared, illuminating the face of the castle wall. Her eyes casually adjusted & wandered over the sights below. Then she stopped- unbelieving. Impossible. A dark figure scaled the castle wall- climbing rapidly at one with the brief shadow of a cloud.
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1. Getting Lost
- White Arrows
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I. The White Castle
The sun blinked. Princess Lei saw only the stars. She lost all sense of time. She felt thoughts foreign to her own. She turned around & saw the Count. He sat cross legged, floating in the air. He spoke but his words of helium floated away. She spoke but her heavy words sunk slowly to the floor. He smiled & became a Buddha, sitting upon an unusual horse. She looked into the sad brown eyes of the mysterious horse. She blinked.
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1. Under Heaven's Skies
- Collective Soul
"If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent." - Confucius
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I. The White Castle & Paris
The image vanished. Silence fell upon her small room. Princess Lei walked to her nearby window & opened the latch. The scent of the sea & the pounding of breakers far below poured into the room. On the horizon a flood of new born stars poured brightly into the faint arc of light now fading fast into the dark mirror of the sea. In a universe of constant change, everything seemed transitory- yet eternal. A paradox.
The Count turned away from his books & returned to his balcony. The small moon shown bright above the city, a white jasmine flower at its zenith, embedded in a garden of stars. The arc of his life formed a panorama of voluptuous change beyond credibility. He breathed deeply, the morning waves massaging his broken body. The morning light brought to him a gift of freedom. He felt as if he were a young child born into the world- a world of freedom- a world long lost & now regained. Now like a Buddha, he listened to Athena & Aristarchus. He realized he lived in a tiny microcosm- a brief fractal moment in a century of millennia spreading across the vast galaxy of civilization.
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