The phase of winter sleep has come to its close,
Binding the end to beginning. The spring comes;
The 15th day of the lunar calendar--the full moon's
Last mystery before the Spring Festival on Feb. 16th.
From the very beginning till the end,
The way ahead is quite a risk-bearing process
Of holding together the tail and head
Attended by our caution of incipient problems.
Any small deviation at the beginning can result
In a large-scale distortion at the end of the day.
If you are off by a hair's breadth at the beginning,
You will miss by thousands of miles in the end.
The cycle has now come to its completeness,
Bringing us to the difficulties of incipience.
Despite the temporal difference between the tail
And head, all the way, the nature of troubles is the same.
The whole moral of this conveys the idea
Of necessity to be as careful in the end
As at the very beginning, never forgetting
That beneath good fortune crouches misfortune.
Truly, a trouble never walks alone. As it is said,
"Men often spoil their affairs just at the point of success,"
But if they were careful in the end as at the beginning,
There would be nothing they could spoil. Amen.
The sagely minded man regards each deal as hard to handle,
And therefore he meets with no hardships in the end.
So, let's start to tackle problems before they come to be;
And set our state in order before it comes to be fully messed.
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But the poem didn't seem to be about the moon. Rather it seemed to be about the state of our affairs. It does seem we are trying to pull back from our problems and not solving them directly. Such is the state of the union.
Ron
Too often we look for ' cures' when it is almost too late...
To look ahead, as Nature herself does is to prevent disaster...
Everything Is so delicately balanced ...
Let us look with Hope tonight as the last mystery before the Spring Festival
plays out in all its Majesty...
Diana...