Nature's Play

The human heart
    Listens to the nightingale sing and thereupon rejoices;
    Hears the frog croak and is thereupon annoyed;
    Observes the flower bloom and immediately thinks of gardening;
    Comes upon some weeds and promptly reaches for the hoe.
This approach judges a thing by feeling its form.
Look carefully at an object through its true nature.
Then, no matter what it may be,
    What does not, of its own, sing of nature's play?
    What does not, by itself, look to its own growth?

                                                        ---Hung Ying-ming---