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"Don't think, feel! It's like a FINGER pointing at the MOON. Don't look at the FINGER or you will miss all the heavenly glory..." - Bruce Lee, in Enter the Dragon
The HAND has a FINGER sticking out of the LADLE that is pointing at the SUN. But you can remember it as a finger pointing to the moon...
The RIGHT HAND is two arms pulling your shirt over your head. You need to CHANGE it because of the drops of sweat from your ARMPITS. To CHANGE your shirt, that idea is muy BIAN4.
The KING has a REGULATION that the best of the new GRAIN harvest goes to the MOUTHS of his family and the court. Only the king can make such a RULE.
This is a two-headed mutant BUG so STRONG it can bend an iron bar into a BOW.
What makes a VEHICLE a SPECIALIZED device is its wheels. They REVOLVE - an important invention for ancient people!
The COW is HAPPY it's strong enough to HOLD UP another cow over its head.
Bruce Lee, from Enter the Dragon - "Don't think, feel! It is like a FINGER pointing at the moon... don't look at the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory."
(Ok, so this is a sun. But sticks in my head anyway.)
TRY to reach your goal by any means necessary. First try WORDS then hard WORK, and if that doesn't work your last resort is the DAGGER!
As you walk 辶 along you come across a well 井, and you decide to (J)ump (IN) = JIN4. Falling tone as you ENTER the water.
When the Supreme Court issues a rulting, each judge writes an opinion, a set of WORDS TO COMMENT ON why this is or isn't JUSTICE.
The only PERSON you should let BORROW from you is one you know from the OLD DAYS.
PRACTICE spinning SILK, keep walking EAST laying (LIAN4) it out on the ground behind you so it doesn't get tangled.
Mad scientist under a shelter is doing experiments, using his right hand to measure the temperature (DEGREE) of the mysterious liquid in the beaker.
In a big hall under the ROOF there's what looks like a chessboard, and a COWRIE sits to the side as the prize for the CONTEST winner.
To BUILD one's PERSON, one needs to be HEALTHY
Just outside the CITY there's a SIGN reading "No stick MEN allowed". The townspeople just want to GET RID OF traveling stick men.
I gave up the world and climbed the mountain to live in a BAMBOO grove, where I have SPACE to think. My life is SIMPLIFIED now.
Work the EARTH in the fields all WEEK so you can feed your MOUTH, and get up every day and do it again. A little microcosm of life in a GLASS JAR.
An artist STANDS facing us, and has just painted three STREAKS of bright COLOR on a PAGE
Imagine a holy book of SCRIPTURE sitting open on a stand, even the pages are made of SILK.
REALITY is when you graduate from school and have to work to pay for a ROOF over your HEAD.
The curve of a CASHEW is like the curve of a woman's WAIST.
See the MOON as muscle held together by tendon, it can withstand great FORCE.
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