Monday, March 30, 2026

Mike Garofalo lives in Vancouver,
Orchards & Five Corners Neighborhoods,
Northeast Clark County, Washington State.

He is available for public readings
in Vancouver or Portland.

He writes, reads and studies Poetry.
His hobbies include: gardening,
writing, walking adventures,
yurt camping, reading, blogging,
Taijiquan, exploring the Northwest,
research studies, local trips,
and family activities.

He has been web publishing since
1998 at Green Way Research.

Mike is 80 years of age.
He has a calm, pleasant, and
friendly speaking voice.
He is a big tall elderly gent.

Best to send him email.

Michael Peter Garofalo (1946-) grew up in East Los Angeles, raied well by June and Big Mike, was educated in Catholic Schools, lived with two other brothers, and graduated (B.A., M.S.) from local public universities.

Married Blanche Karen Eubanks, served in the US Air Force, worked in and managed many City and Los Angeles County Public Libraries, raised two children, socialized, traveled, and learned. Retired as the Regional Administrator, East Region, Los Angeles County Public Library in 1998.

We moved to a rural 5 acre property in Red Bluff, in the North Sacramento Valley, CA. Webmaster since 1998. Worked part-time for the Corning School District (Technology and Media Services Manager, District Librarian, Grant Writer, and Webmaster); and as a yoga, Taijiquan, and fitness club instructor until 2016. Traveled extensively in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington.

We both retired, and we moved to Vancouver, WA, in 2017. From 2017 to 2026: reading, writing, gardening, harmonica playing, home chores, activities with children and grand-children, yurt camping, blogging, Tai Chi Chuan, exercises, traveling in the Northwest, walking, web publishing, poetry research and writing, photography, Northwest research, Nature mysticism, aesthetics, pragmatism, literary and rhetorical theory, and sports events.

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and Hwy 1 Docu-Poem

Cloud Hands Blog

Mike Garofalo's Internet Web Publishing
Objectives, Aims, and Policies:

Provide open access to people worldwide.
People can read my poetry and
research studies for free: 24/7.

Google translate drop-down menu included,
so you can read the machine AI translations
of all my poems into over 80 languages.
I sometimes read the translations of my
English poems into a Spanish version.

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Offering no chapbooks or books of mine
or from others to sell.

Since 2024, webpages are in CSS format
and cellphone readable.

Since 2005, I have used my
Cloud Hands Blog for poetry posts,
many other topics, promoting others,
selling books.

I research and study poetry at my home.

In 2026, I will be carefully studying writers
from the San Francisco Renaissance Period
(1950-1980), Emily Dickinson,
Quintain Poetry, John Ashbery,
and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Editors and publishers who think my
poetry has commercial possibilities
for themselves are
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I've been employed as a webmaster,
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since 1998.

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on March 28, 2026.

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Dayan (Wild Goose) Chi Kung Exercises

Dayan (Wild Goose) Qigong Exercises

Bibliography, Links, Quotes, Notes, List of Movements
Research by Mike Garofalo
This Qigong form is one long continuous sequence of movements, much like a Taiji form. There are many aspects of the Wild Goose

Watch UTube Video of Part One of Wild Goose Qigong

Qigong system as presented by Dr. Bingkun Hu of San Francisco.

I was practicing this Dayan form one autumn winter morning in my Sacred Circle Garden when a flock of Canadian Geese flew overhead. The North Sacramento Valley is the winter home of birds from Canada. Behold ... 'everything is holy now':

"A second Grandfather, he of the North, spoke again:

"Take courage, younger brother," he said, "on earth a nation you shall make live, for yours shall be the power of the white giant's wing, the cleansing wing."

Then he got up very tall and started running toward the north; and when he turned toward me, it was a white goose wheeling. I looked about me now, and the horses in the west were thunders and the horses of the north where geese.

And the second Grandfather sang two songs that were like this:

"They are appearing, may you behold!
They are appearing , may you behold!
The thunder nation is appearing, behold!

They are appearing, may you behold!
They are appearing, may you behold!
The white geese nation is appearing, behold!"

- Black Elk Speaks, 1932, p. 22, as told to John G. Neihardt.

A post from October 2015.

"In the north-west of China, high above the Himalayas, are the mystical Kunlun Mountains. Nearly 1700 years ago a hermit named Si Dao An (the Peaceful Way) observed the movements of the many wild geese that haunt the area and began to incorporate these bending, stretching, twisting and fluttering techniques into a health-enhancing routine called the Dayan Gong or Wild Goose Qigong. Since then over 30 generations have taught this skill to the world. The 27th generation inheritor, Grandmaster Yang Mei-Jun (who died in 2002 aged 107) was the first to open the Dayan Gong outside China ... through Master Tse Wei Jing Who is the only authorised senior instructor of the Kunlun Mountains Qigong in the East of England."
- Julian Wilde, Norwich Tse Tai Chi

"Wild Goose Qigong belongs to the Kunlun School, so it is also called Kunlun School Qigong. This school began in the Sichuan Province in China. The most famous practitioner of Wild Goose Qigong was Dao An, who spread it during the Jin Dynasty (265-420 A.D.). Because he was the most famous teacher of Wild Goose Qigong, he was crowned as its founder by later generations. Later on, Wild Goose Qigong spread to northern China, and was kept by Wan Li at Wutai Mountain. Emperor Qian Long, during the Qing Dynasty (1368-1840 A.D.), promoted religion and established temples all over the country so that Wild Goose Qigong could be passed down to the present."
- By Hong-Chao Zhang, Wild Goose Qigong, p 12

"Dayan Qigong is a content-rich set of system consisting of two categories: dynamic and silent. For the former, the routine forms imitate wild goose's shape, movements or even habits, with the aim letting the internal energy flow smoothly within the body along the channels and meridians, thus moving away the thwarting blocks. In a whole, all forms shine out the feeling of wonderful harmony consisting both softness and hardness, of unrestrainedness, simpleness, and lightness. Also, some strange feeling may arise to the heart that seems to fly over the wild stretch of ocean and the vastness overpowers all consciousness."
- Dayan Qigong

Burn Me with Your Beauty Then

"How many million Aprils came
before I ever knew
how white a cherry bough could be,
a bed of squills, how blue
And many a dancing April
when life is done with me,
will lift the blue flame of the flower
and the white flame of the tree
Oh burn me with your beauty then,
oh hurt me tree and flower,
lest in the end death try to take
even this glistening hour..."
- Sara Teasdale, Blue Squills, 1920

April: Quotes, Sayings, Lore, Chores

Saturday, March 28, 2026

No Kings Day Protest Marches in America

We strongly support all the No Kings Day Protest Marches in the United States. Today, 3/28/2026, millions will walk and talk about how we can be become a better Nation. We respect and admire these loyal real Americans.

The current MAGA Republican crumbly Krew and the incompetent and sick demented pedophile thief President Tumper Dum Dum must be immediately removed. Return to our Real and Honorable American Ways.

We both worked until age 70, paid taxes and Social Security for 54 years, and I served in the US Air Force for four years, and we both voted Democratic in every election since 1967.

More Democrats and Independents need 1) Vote in every election, and 2) root out their unconscious mistreatment of women, minorities, gays, the sick, the impoverished, and the downtrodden. We want peace, we want DEI, we want a good economy, we want a better future for our grandchildren, we want a Real Respected America.

Stop the billionaire class from dominating American lives in the national media, and in their bribery and illegal manipulations of laws to further their outrageous indifferent Greed!

We want the USA Department of Defense to Return. We want our troops brought home. We want Veterans benefits restored and improved.

Peace, Sisters and Brothers, Love Not War

Friday, March 27, 2026

California Bees and Blooms

"California is home to over sixteen hundred species of undomesticated bees--most of them native--that populate and pollinate our gardens, fields, and urban green spaces. In this absorbing guidebook, some of the state's preeminent bee and botany experts introduce us to this diverse population. California Bees and Blooms holds a magnifying glass up to the twenty-two most common genera (and six species of cuckoo bees), describing each one's distinctive behaviors, social structures, flight season, preferred flowers, and enemies. Enhancing these descriptions are photographs of bees so finely detailed they capture pollen scattered across gauzy wings and iridescent exoskeletons.
Drawing from years of research at the UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab, California Bees and Blooms presents an authoritative look at these creatures, emphasizing their vital relationship with flowers. In addition to opening our eyes to the beautiful array of wild bees in our midst, this book provides information on fifty-three bee-friendly plants and how to grow them. Just a few square feet of poppies, sage, and phacelia are enough to sustain a healthy population of wild bees, transforming an urban or suburban garden into a world that hums and buzzes with life."

California Bees and Blooms: A Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists, 2013

The Spirit of Gardening

The Red Bluff Notebooks

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan 108 Form, Third Section

For Tai Chi Chuan players:

I often take a section of a long Taijiquan form and restudy and carefully practice only that section many times. I look up that section in books to learn more from master teachers. I also use instructional DVDs and UTube for sectional reviews. Smaller bites assists with better chewing and digestion.

I use the fine books by Fu Zhongwen, Li Deyin, T.T. Liang/Stuart Olson, and Gordon Muir for review. All have photographs or line illustrations of the movements and much commentary.

Here are some UTube demonstrations of the Third Section (Movements 56-108) of the Traditional Long Form of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan:

Third Section, Movements 55-108, List of Movements

Third Section List , Movements 55-108, Yang Long Form 108

Provides a list with the number of the movement and the name of movement. In the PDF format (print only), 1 page, 26Kb.

Third Section List, Part I, Movements 56 - 82, Yang Long Form 108

Provides a list with the number of the movement, the direction one is facing at the end of that movement, the name of the movement, and a brief description or notes about the movement. In the PDF format (print only), 1 page, 65Kb. In the HTML format provided below in this document.

Third Section List, Part II, Movements 83 - 108, Yang Long Form 108.

Provides a list with the number of the movement, the direction one is facing at the end of that movement, the name of the movement, and a brief description or notes about the movement. In the PDF format (print only), 1 page, 63Kb. In the HTML format provided below in this document.

Comparison of 108 Long Yang with 88 Long Yang - Chart

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Quintain Poetry: Bundled Up: Volumes 1-7

Bundled Up

!! New Book !!

Five Corners of Time
202 Eclectic Quintains and Onions
By Mike Garofalo
TextPreSS Couve, June 2026, 110 pages, EBook.

Bundled Up:

Quintains, Tankas, Pentastichs, and Onions
Quintain Sonnets, TextArt
Gogyohkas, Limericks, Wakas, Quintets
Remarks, Epigrams, Commonplaces, Seeings
Ad Free Webpages, Translation Menu

Quintain Poetry By Mike Garofalo

Bundled Up, Volume 1
Wakas, Quintillas, Tankas, Quintets
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000

Bundled Up, Volume 2
Gogyohkas, Limericks, Wakas
Rhymes, Remarks, Listenings, Insights
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500

Bundled Up, Volume 3
Rhymes, TextArt, Epigrams
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000

Bundled Up, Volume 4
Remarks, Rhymes, Seeings, Onions
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500

Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Sonnets, Time, TextArt, Koans, Remarks
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000

Bundled Up, Volume 6
Quintain Sonnets, Time, Language, Delight
Quintain Poems 3,000 - 3,500

Bundled Up, Volume 7
Quintains, Delight, Nature, Remarks, Tankas
Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000

Quintains - Research

Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan, Second Section

Second Section of the Yang Style of Taijiquan

Tradition Yang Tai Chi Chuan, Long Form, 2nd Section

Second Section, Movements 56-82, List of Movements

Second Section List, Movements 18-55, Yang Long Form 108

Provides a list with the number of the movement and the name of movement. In the PDF format (print only), 1 page, 16Kb.

Second Section List, Part I, Movements 18 - 37, Yang Long Form 108

Provides a list with the number of the movement, the direction one is facing at the end of that movement, the name of the movement, and a brief description or notes about the movement. In the PDF format (print only), 1 page, 53Kb. In the HTML format provided below in this document.

Seond Section List, Part II, Movements 38 - 55, Yang Long Form 108

Provides a list with the number of the movement, the direction one is facing at the end of that movement, the name of the movement, and a brief description or notes about the movement. In the PDF format (print only), 1 page, 48Kb. In the HTML format provided below in this document.

Comparison of 108 Long Yang with 88 Long Yang - Chart

Long Form, 108 Movements, Second Section 18. Carry Tiger to the Mountain 19. Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail 20. Fist Under Elbow 21. Repulse Monkey – Right 22. Repulse Monkey – Left 23. Repulse Monkey – Right 24. Diagonal Slant Flying 25. Raise Hands, Shoulder Stroke 26. White Crane Spreads Its Wings 27. Brush Left Knee, Push 28. Needle at Sea Bottom 29. Fan Through the Back 30. Turn, Chop with Fist 31. Step Forward, Parry, Punch 32. Ward-Off Left 33. Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail 34. Single Whip 35. Wave Hands Like Clouds 36. Single Whip 37. High Pat on Horse 38. Kick with Right Toe 39. Kick with Left Toe 40. Turn, Kick with Left Sole 41. Brush Left Knee, Push 42. Brush Right Knee, Push 43. Step Up, Punch Downward 44. Turn, Chop with Fist 45. Step Forward, Parry, Punch 46. Kick with Right Sole 47. Strike Tiger, Left Side 48. Strike Tiger, Right Side 49. Kick with Right Sole 50. Box Ears with Fists 51. Kick with Left Sole 52. Pivot, Kick with Right Sole 53. Deflect, Parry and Punch 54. Apparent Withdraw Cross Hands

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Like a Dragon Whirling in the Clouds

"It is easier to leave a circle than to enter it.
The emphasis is on the hip movement whether front or back.
The difficulty is to maintain the position without shifting the centre.
To analyze and understand the above situation is to do with movement and not with a stationary posture.
Advancing and retreating by turning sideways in line with the shoulders, one is capable of turning like a millstone, fast or slow, as if whirling like a dragon in the clouds or sensing the approach of a fierce tiger.
From this, one can learn the usage of the movement of the upper torso.
Through long practice, such movement will become natural."
- Yang Family Old Manual, The Coil Incense Kung

"The East Asian Dragons are often associated with water, rain, vapors, fog, springs, streams, waterfalls, rivers, swamps, lakes, and the ocean. Water can take many shapes and states, and Dragons are shape shifters and linked with transformation, appearing and disappearing, changing into something new. Water is found in three states, depending upon the surrounding temperature: a solid (ice, snow), a fluid (flowing liquid), and a gas (fog, vapor, steam). Since rainfall is often accompanied by thunder and lightening (thunderstorms and typhoons), the Dragon is sometimes associated with fire; and, since hot water and steam are major sources of energy in human culture, this further links the Dragon with the essential energy of Fire. The Dragon is thus linked with the chemical and alchemical transformative properties of two of the essential Elements, both Water and Fire. Dragons are generally benign or helpful to humans in East Asia, but their powers can also be destructive (e.g., flooding, tsunami, typhoon, lightening, steam, drowning, etc.). There are both male and female Dragons, kinds or species of Dragons, Dragons of different colors and sizes, and mostly good but some evil Dragons. Some Dragons can fly, some cannot fly; most live in or near water, a few on land. The body of a Dragon combines features from many animals, representing the many possibilities for existential presence. The Dragon in the East has serpentine, snake, or eel like movement qualities: twisting, spiraling, sliding, circling, swimming, undulating, flowing freely like water." [See: The Dragon in China and Japan by Marinus De Visser, 1913]

Dragon Chi Kung features exercises that involve twisting, turning, screwing, spiraling, curving, wiggling, undulating, spinning, sinking down and rising up, swimming, circling, swinging, or twining movements are often associated with snakes, serpents and dragons. There are many Qigong sets and specific Qigong movements that have been called "Dragon" forms, sets, or exercises. Baguazhang martial arts feature much twisting, turning and circling; and, also include many "Dragon" sets and movements. Silk Reeling exercises in Chen Style Taijiquan include twisting, twining, circling, and screwing kinds of movements.

The Realms of the Dragons

Dragon Qigong

Dragon Staff

Swinging Arms Exercises

Magic Pearl Qigong

Leaping Over the Dragon's Gate

Dragons: Bibliography, Links, Quotes, Notes

Quintain Poetry: Quintain Sonnet (555)

555 quintain + quintain + quintain

15 lines, stanzas with rhyme schemes or free verse

Mike Garofalo Quintain Sonnet Examples 555
Examples: # 92, 932, 933, 939, 1513, 1931, 2006, 2049, 2077, 2099,
# 2131, 2175, 2243, 2254, 2576, 2853, 2925

John Ashbury, A Picture of J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers

Robert Bly:
The Poem
The Chinese Peaks
The Rainy September

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.):
Time has an end you say

William Everson, Jacob and the Angel

Mike Garofalo (555):
Alternatives of Two #2049
Best Way Forward # 2214
The Bloodless Sea #92
The Bottom Line #2175
Criteria for Action #2735
The Day My Religion Started to Die #2340
Double Visions #933
The Event: Number 16; She Was Fire #2788
A False Call to Men # 2506
Feathers in the Weeds #2243
Flotsams of Unknowns #2303
The Hanford Radioactive Blues # 2254
Here & Now @ #2374
Packed Into Anxiety #1968
Playing with the Table Box #2035
The Pleasures of Masochistic Conundrums #932
Quintains At a Minimum #2576
Running Out of Time #1513
Sand in my Face #2926
So What If? #1964
A Titled Quintain is a Sextet #2077
Bundled Up: Quintain Sonnets: Volume 5
We Spoke Softly # 2589
The West Edge Tour # 2925
Will Cherished Ideals Survive #2229

Philip Larkin:
Compline
Hard Lines
The Returning I
Song With a Spoken Refrain
Success Story
Young Woman's Blues

D. H. Lawrence:
Come Spring, Come Sorrow #2853
Turned Down # 2973

Audre Lorde, Love Poem

Marianne Moore, Feed Me, Also, River God

Howard Nemerov:
Date with the Rabbi
First Snow
To the Mannequins
The Vacuum
The Wheel King #2541

Octavio Paz:
Walking Through the Light #2099

Arthur Rimbaud, The Poor Man Dreams #2209

Christina Rosetti, By the Sea

William Stafford:
Entering History
Fixers
For a Lost Child
Freedom
The Gift
Haycutters
Ice Fishing
Jeremiah at Miminagish
A Life, a Ritual
A Memorial to My Mother
Midwest
My Mother Was a Soldier
No Praise, No Blame
Over the North Jetty
Right to Die
Security
Stereopticon
Vocation
The Wanderer Awaiting Preferment
Watching the Jet Planes Dive
Whispered in Winter
Witness

Diane Wakoski, Belly Dancer

W. B. Yeats:
The Mother of God
Remorse for Intemperate Speech #2710
The Road at My Door
The Rose of the World
The Stare's Nest in My Window

The Gushen Grove Sonnets

Bundled Up: 3,500+ Quintains
By Michael P. Garofalo

Monday, March 23, 2026

Quintain Poetry: Quintain Sonnet (554)

554 quintain + quintain + quartet

14 lines, stanzas with rhyme schemes or free verse

Mike Garofalo Quintain Sonnet 554 Examples:

# 2654, 2663, 2763, 2764, 2765, 2767, 2768, 2769, 2771

Julian Bell:
An Epistle on the Subject Of # 2983

Mike Garofalo:
Dream Time of a Body-Mind # 2768
Five Elements Embracing # 2763
Flowers in the Skagit Valley # 2767
Here and Gone # 2663
Ice Crystal Streaked # 2771
Mountains Melted # 2764
Pointing in What Direction? # 2769
Radiate the Inner Smile #2654
Waiting: Then Suddenly # 2765

Soil, sea, sun, rain, sky ...
Five Elements embracing,
Intertwined in mind.
Unfathomable Matrix;
Scaffolds on scaffolds

Grounded in Otherness.
Below sky, gardener, bees, soil,
seeds, leaves, stems, roots, water...
Below wet cells embraced,
Below atoms dancing on Energy...

Deeper and deeper below
Into What?
A Plenitude, a sacredness.
Emptiness in full bloom.
- Mike Garofalo, #2763

Quintain Sonnets

Quintain Research

Bundled Up: 3,500 Quintains
Volumes 1 -6
Add Free Webpages

Harmonica: This Land is Your Land

Harmonica: This Land is Your Land

Woody Guthrie wrote the song “This Land is Your Land” in 1940.
My harmonica teacher, Luke, says “it was a critical response to the song God Bless America.”

Key of C. Chords: C7 F C G G7

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie

This Land is Your Land

4 -4 5 -5 -5

This land is your land

-5 4 -4 5 5

This land is my land

3 4 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 5 5

From California to the New York island

4 4 -4 5 -5 -5

From the redwood forest

-5 -5 4 -4 5 5

To the Gulf Stream waters

-4 -4 -4 -3 3 -3 -4 4

This land was made for you and me

Sunday, March 22, 2026

The Forces of Green

"There lies within
A hidden glen
An altar made of stone.
Creeping vine
And moss entwine
To hide this ancient throne.
Tangled thorn
Grows thick to scorn
Those who seek to enter.
For though they strive
No man alive
Shall ever reach its center.
Known as Pan,
To some Green Man,
This glen is his sacred place.
He dons his hood
Of wildwood
To hide his leafy face.
The roving clans
That raped the lands,
Cut down his beloved trees.
And so, alas
As time did pass
The Green God fell to his knees. ..."
- Kristina Peters Moone, The Green Man

"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks."
- Dylan Thomas, The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

The Green Man

Lore, Legends, Tales, Celebrations, Springtime Symbols, Folk Stories and Plays
From the hypertext research notebooks of Mike Garofalo

This cabbage, these carrots, these potatoes,
these onions ... will soon become me.
Such a tasty fact!
- Mike Garofalo, Cuttings

Portrait of the Emperor Rudolph II as Autumn.By Arcimboldo, 1591, Held at the Museo Civico, Brescia.

Yang Style Taijiquan Long Form Section I

Yang Style Taijiquan Long Form Section I

First Section, Movements 1-17, List of Movements

First Section List, Movements 1-17, Yang Long Form 108

Provides a list with the number of the movement and the name of movement. In the PDF format (print only), 1 page, 16Kb.

First Section List, Part I, Movements 1 - 17, Yang Long Form 108

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Chapter 75, Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu

Daodejing, Laozi
Chapter 75

"When people are hungry,
It is because their rulers eat too much tax-grain.
Therefore the unruliness of hungry people
Is due to the interference of their rulers.
That is why they are unruly.
The people are not afraid of death,
Because they are anxious to make a living.
That is why they are not afraid of death.
It is those who interfere not with their living
That are wise in exalting life."
- Translated by Lin Yutang, 1955, Chapter 75

"The people suffer from famine on account of the heavy taxation put upon them.
This is the cause of their need.
The people are difficult to govern because of the overbearing of their superiors.
This is the cause of their trouble.
The people make light of dying because of the great hardships of trying to live.
This is the reason for their indifference to death.
Therefore to keep living in obscurity is better than making overmuch of it."
- Translated by Walter Gorn Old, 1904, Chapter 75

"The taxes eaten by the ruling class
Left nothing to be eaten by the mass,
And that is why through famine they must pass.
The ruling class made such a great ado
In ruling men, that these made trouble, too,
and that is why their difficulties grew.
People make light of death in their turmoil,
And, seeking life s excess, thereby beguile
Themselves till death, made light of, claims his spoil.
On life to set less store is therefore best,
It thus becomes a far more worthy quest
Than when tis made one s ruling interest."
- Translated by Isaac Winter Heysinger, 1903, Chapter 75

"When taxes are too heavy, hunger lays the people low.
When those who govern interfere too much, the people become rebellious.
When those who govern demand too much of people's lives, death is taken lightly.
When the people are starving in the land, life is of little value,
and so is more easily sacrificed by them in overthrowing government."
- Translated by Stan Rosenthal, 1984, Chapter 75

民之飢, 以其上食稅之多, 是以飢.
民之難治, 以其上之有為, 是以難治.
民之輕死, 以其求生之厚, 是以輕死.
夫唯無以生為者, 是賢於貴生.
- Chinese characters, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 75

min chih chi, yi ch'i shang shih shui chih, to shih yi chi.
min chih nan chih, yi ch'i shang chih yu wei, shih yi nan chih.
min chih ch'ing ssu, yi ch'i ch'iu shêng chih hou, shih yi ch'ing ssu.
fu wei wu yi shêng wei chê, shih hsien yü kuei shêng.
- Wade-Giles (1892) Romanization, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 75

"When the nation is in want of food, it can be seen that the government officials are eating too much of the grain in excessive taxes.
And why are the people restive and hard to govern?
They are in a state of near rebellion due to the intrusive machinations of the government.
The people learn to make light of death when they strive to obtain goods and extravagant items.
They are relentlessly working to acquire more, and look to death as a release from pursuit of material gain.
In this wise it is easy to not place too high a price on life."
- Translated by John Dicus, 2002, Chapter 75

"The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.
It is through this that they suffer famine.
The people are difficult to govern because of the excessive agency of their superiors in governing them.
It is through this that they are difficult to govern.
The people make light of dying because of the greatness of their labours in seeking for the means of living.
It is this which makes them think light of dying.
Thus it is that to leave the subject of living altogether out of view is better that to set a high value on it."
- Translated by Andre von Gauthier, Chapter 75

"El pueblo tiene hambre.
Como sus gobernantes le imponen un impuesto al grano demasiao alto,
entonces tiene hambre.

El pueblo es difícil de gobernar.
Como sus gobernantes gobiernan mediante la acción,
entonces es difícil de gobernar.

El pueblo toma la muerte a la ligera.
Como se la pasan persiguiendo a la vida,
entonces toman la muerte a la ligera.

El que no tiene tiene nada que perseguir en la vida,
es más sabio que aquél que valora la vida."
- Translated by Álex Ferrara, 2003, Capítulo 75

"People go hungry because taxes eat their food.
Therefore, the people go hungry.
People are hard to manage because they are oppressed.
Therefore, they are hard to manage.
People laugh at death because their lives are cheapened
With the weight of expectation.
This is why they laugh at death.
Who could value life
When food is scarce, and freedom repressed?"
- Translated by Brian Donohue, 2005, Chapter 75

"The hunger of the people
Is from their superiors eating up so much of their tax grain
This is behind the hunger
The difficulties in governing the people
Are due to their superiors having to take action
This is behind the difficulties in government
The people come to take death lightly
Because they pursue life’s riches
This is behind their taking death lightly
Only when one does not think life a performance
Will there be skill in valuing life."
-  Translated by Bradford Hatcher, 2005, Chapter 75

A typical webpage created by Mike Garofalo for each one of the 81 Chapters (Verses, Sections) of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao Tzu (Laozi) includes over 25 different English language translations or interpolations for that Chapter, 5 Spanish language translations for that Chapter, the Chinese characters for that Chapter, the Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin transliterations (Romanization) of the Mandarin Chinese words for that Chapter, and 2 German and 1 French translation of that Chapter. Each webpage for each one of the 81 Chapters of the Tao Te Ching includes extensive indexing by key words, phrases, and terms for that Chapter in English, Spanish, and the Wade-Giles Romanization. Each webpage on a Chapter of the Daodejing includes recommended reading in books and websites, a detailed bibliography, some commentary, research leads, translation sources, a Google Translate drop down menu, and other resources for that Chapter.

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