The Way of Chuang Tzu () by Thomas Merton

The Way of Chuang Tzu () by Thomas Merton

Author:Thomas Merton
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-8112-2307-2
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1997-08-22T16:00:00+00:00


In the land of Khi, from village to village,

You could hear cocks crowing, dogs barking.

Fishermen cast their nets,

Ploughmen ploughed the wide fields,

Everything was neatly marked out

By boundary lines. For five hundred square miles

There were temples for ancestors, altars

For field-gods and corn-spirits.

Every canton, county, and district

Was run according to the laws and statutes—

Until one morning the Attorney General, Tien Khang Tzu,

Did away with the King and took over the whole state.

Was he content to steal the land? No,

He also took over the laws and statutes at the same time,

And all the lawyers with them, not to mention the police.

They all formed part of the same package.



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