BAMBOO: Some thoughts about neural plasticity and flexibility Knowing how to bend without breaking & sway when earth is quaking bamboo wisdom is deep Knowing when to send forth roots & focus power through shoots bamboo strength is amazing Hearing bamboos rustle is perfect poetry & touching fresh bamboo hairs is ultimate sensuality An-Yi: (sighing)This poem stinks of Taoism. Daiki: (sniffing comically) Really? I don't smell anything odd. Bhäraté: (laughing) Yeah, perhaps you are too sensitive? Chariya: I think that An-Yi is saying that too much ideology can taint our experience. ===================================================================================== from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An image of a bamboo grove, verse about bamboo, and conversation about ideological rigidity. KEYWORDS: bamboo wisdom, neural plasticity, ideological rigidity, Taoist thought, Asian philosophy Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1995 in Shizuoka, Japan ≜ Finished: 2016 in New Taipei, Taiwan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/dragon.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/along.htm TRANSLATIONS DEUTSCH: http://www.tnewfields.info/de/bambus.htm ESPAÑOL: http://www.tnewfields.info/es/bam.htm FRANÇAIS: http://www.tnewfields.info/fr/bambou.htm NIHONGO: http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/take.htm ZHŌNGWÉN: http://www.tnewfields.info/zh/zhu2.htm