SEEING THROUGH HIS EYES

Book XVII

 

2. The Master said, By nature, near together; by practice, far apart.

3.  The Master said, It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.

11.  The Master said, Ritual, ritual!  Does it mean no more than presents of jade and silk?  Music, music!  Does it mean no more than bells and drums?

14.   The Master said, To tell in the lane what you heard on the highroad is to throw merit away.
 

 

Arthur Waley (trans. and annotated), The Analects of Confucius, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1938 

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TAOIST SONG BY CHI K'ANG (A.D. 223-262)

I will cast out Wisdom and reject Learning.

My thoughts shall wander in the Great Void

Always repenting of wrongs done

Will never bring my heart to rest.

I cast my hook in a single stream;

But my joy is as though I possessed a Kingdom.

I loose my hair and go singing;

To the four frontiers men join my refrain.

This is the purport of my song:

“My thoughts shall wander in the Great Void.”

From Arthur Waley’s Translations from the Chinese, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1919

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