A MONKISH RIDDLE
A MONKISH RIDDLE
Like an old chestnut*
The tree in the forest falls
Silent? Who’s to say?
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* “An old chestnut (mainly British). If you describe something that is said or written as an old chestnut or a hoary old chestnut, you mean that it has been repeated so often that it is no longer interesting.” (Free Dictionary; Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012.)
Posted on March 8, 2019, in Wee Poems and tagged Koan, Zen. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
The Book Of Guff 
A fallen tree leaves not a hole in the forest, but a thousand plants to take its place.
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Good way to look at it. 🙂
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It was something I learnt in biology, about how fallen trees are essential for the regrowth within a forest. Nothing ceases to exist, it just takes on a new form.
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