powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine
father and mother; parents
he; she; that person; (arch.) you
few decades; many decades; several decades
recollecting; reminiscing; looking back; retrospection; review
lightning; electric illumination; light from an electric source
minuteness; one millionth
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
surroundings; circumference
in the background; not standing out
standing tree; standing timber
barefoot; superior to (a professional, etc. in ability or achievement)
scriptural text; scriptures; sutras
to recite; to chant; to read aloud
to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
chanting or reading the sutras
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)
outstandingly; extraordinarily; exceptionally
gatha (poetic verse of a scripture)
seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting
crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
ramble; saunter; walk; wander; stroll
sublimation; sublimating (an emotion, impulse, etc.); channelling; diverting
plectrum; pick; drumstick for Japanese drums (e.g. taiko)
unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very
to loiter (on the way); to waste time
beheading (as the ending to a seppuku); assistance; help
to blunder; to fail; to make a mistake
to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
dark clouds; black clouds
(in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt
to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)