Buddha should be delighted to know that we had delicious Buddha’s Delight for dinner on the Chinese New Year’s day. More delightful is to read Lin Yutang’s The Gay Genius and Burton Watson’s Selected Poems of Su Tung-p’o after.

Su Dongpo must have read Liezi at very early age, which has been inscribed on his memory even since. Wind appears in Su Dongpo’s poems and essays in almost every other line, either as an admiration to an enlightened Taoist sage flying completely unconstrained in the wind, or being a tiny reed flower being helplessly blown about by the wind.

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