Big Chief Got A Golden Crown

Wild Tchoupitoulas : Big Chief Got a Golden Crown

Wild Tchoupitoulas : Hey Hey (Indians Comin')


Stop thinking,
and end your problems.
What difference
between yes and no?
What difference
between success and failure?
Must you value
what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they
were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant
before it can smile.

Other people
have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot,
my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharp;
I alone am dull.
Other people have purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like
a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless
as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.

--Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching

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Shiva Temple and friends
outside Lonetree Canyon
Grand Scenic Divide and beyond
nameless puddle