The Toki Ponist on the Mountain

Everybody needs a guru. Therefore, I need one too. Fortune has it that I am one, so I decided to be my own guru. Here it will be unveiled, one step at a time, how I became The Toki Ponist on the Mountain.

ni li lon seme? ~ search results

lipu mute ~ novels

Follow the progress of the origin story of The Toki Ponist on the Mountain in published and upcoming novels.

ilo musi ~ games

Enter the universe in a Point & Click Adventure fashion; and play the first escape game episode now.

sitelen sona pona ~ topics

Today

A different time, a different calendar, a different life.

Move in Space

Words and image about moving around.

Learn Toki Pona

Learn Toki Pona in a playful way using a free Duolingo-like web app.

toki nasin nasa ~ koans

toki ike li ike ala e ona la, jan sona li sama jan nasa.

The guru is like the fool in that he is unmoved by criticism.

sina ken toki kepeken uta wan taso.

You can only speak with one mouth.

lon li lon pona. anu pona li lon ala lon lon.

There is truth is in simplicity, but simplicity does not exists in existence. Truth can be found in simple things, but truth is not in itself simple.

jan pi jo ala en jan pi jo ale li ken lon pona.

He who has everything and he who has nothing can live in the present. The middle class lives to gain and fears to lose.

ike lili li kama e pakala suli tawa jan lili.

For a child, any small problem can become a trauma.

sina pana e nimi pi jan sona suli tawa jan la, sina weka sona.

Once you start calling someone a genius, you have stopped understanding what they are saying.

sina ken toki tawa jan lili kepeken pilin awen la, sina wile toki tawa jan suli kin.

The patience with which adults can speak to children with, you should use with other adults.

ona li toki e toki la, ni li pona taso tan ni: ona li sona ala e ijo.

Telling a story only serves well to make clear you do not understand something.

ni li jan ale li pona: jan li toki wan li pali ante.

Everyone is a hypocrite and that is fine.

sina wile ala musi e musi wile la, sina musi e musi ante sewi.

If you refuse to play a forced game, you play a higher game instead.

lon li ike sama lon.

The truth is as ugly as it is.

lon lawa ala la, pilin anpa li ike lon kulupu.

Depression is not in your head, but a problem of and within society.

ni li ken ala: nanpa li sewi.

Numbers can not be sacred or holy. Ratio of numbers pave the road of information and patterns.

ilo open li pona la, sina sona ala e ni: ilo li open e seme.

A key is more interesting when you do not know what it opens.

ona li kipisi e pan suwi la, ona li jo ala e pan e suwi.

If you cut a cake, you don't end up with flower and sugar.

sina wile pali tawa pona.

You have to earn simplicity.

ilo kipisi li wile ala kipisi e ona.

A knife does not need to cut itself. The self does not need to notice itself.

lape li pona la, moli li monsuta tan seme?

If sleeping is nice, why is dying then so scary? Sleeping without end is not a problem for your sleeping self.

taso telo awen li ken lukin pona sama sike sewi.

Only still water reflects the heavens perfectly. But all water reflects the heavens.

soweli li pona ala tan mu ona.

A dog's quality is not defined by barking. A person's quality is not determined by its talking.

lon li pakala pona e tenpo.

Existence is the best way to waste time.

nimi telo li ken ala telo.

The word for water cannot wash anything.

tenpo ni la mi pilin ike.

In the present I feel pain. About the past I feel suffering. About the future I feel fear.

toki li kiwen la, o toki ko!

If talking is hard, speak softly.

mi sona e ma pi lon ken.

I think about a possible world. I experience the probable world/existence. I want a desired world.

sina suli e kasi la sina ken pali e lipu.

If you grow a tree, you can create a book. But the knowledge of the tree is not in the book.

toki ni li nasa: mi ijo seme?

It is senseless to ask what you are.

nimi pi ijo wawa li pakala e wawa pi ijo ni.

Strong words destroy the strength of the object.

sina li tawa ala e sina. kon li tawa e sina.

You don't move yourself. The air moves you.

kala pona kin li tawa lon telo jaki pi kala ante.

Even good fish have to swim in the dirty water of others.

jan li pakala e noka ona la, lawa ona li tawa ala kin.

When someone breaks a foot, also his head no longer travels.
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