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According to Anthony de Melo, every evening before sleeping the Zen Master Rinzai (9th century) was laughing in loud and filled the whole monastery with cordial joyful laughter. Cascades of his happy laughter used to explode again during mornings and to wake up everyone, even the deepest sleepers. Rinzai never explained a reason of his grandiose laughter.

I imagine Rinzai spending his days at pond, observing water skaters. Sometimes, when he was sure that no one had been around, he used to stride shortly on the surface with them.

Gerridae, known in English as water striders, water bugs, magic bugs, pond skaters, skaters, skimmers, water scooters, water skaters, water skeeters, water skimmers or water skippers, are fascinating by their ability to walk on water surface. Weight of their legs, supposedly, would be counted in micrograms. They stay, so to say, with one leg in material world and the other in spiritual world. Similar mysterious lightness have some of the guitar tones, especially harmonics, as well as that bass clarinet tones, which are able to appear and disappear fluently through the surface of silence.

Martin Smolka