Clouds and Mountains

Clouds leaving mountain peaks drift without a thought...
-- T'ao Ch'ien
(from, Back Home Again Chant; translation by David Hinton)

Lushan Mountain in Jiujang, east China's Jiangxi Province - area of T'ao Ch'ien's birth.
(Photo by Xinhua, 22 February 2013; www.globaltimes.cn/content/763603.shtml)

The clouds encounter the seemingly still mountain peaks, yet are unencumbered and unaffected.  They simply drift without any sense of attachment or thought.  T'ao Ch'ien did much the same thing after encountering the political mountains of his day.  He simply walked away and returned home.