Zhuangzi by Burton Watson
Author:Burton Watson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy/Eastern/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-09-10T00:00:00+00:00
Nanpo Zikui said to the Woman Crookback, âYou are old in years and yet your complexion is that of a child. Why is this?â
âI have heard the Way!â
âCan the Way be learned?â asked Nanpo Zikui.
âGoodness, how could that be? Anyway, you arenât the man to do it. Now thereâs Buliang Yiâhe has the talent of a sage but not the Way of a sage, whereas I have the Way of a sage but not the talent of a sage. I thought I would try to teach him and see if I could really get anywhere near to making him a sage. Itâs easier to explain the Way of a sage to someone who has the talent of a sage, you know. So I began explaining and kept at him for three days,14 and after that he was able to put the world outside himself. When he had put the world outside himself, I kept at him for seven days more, and after that he was able to put things outside himself. When he had put things outside himself, I kept at him for nine days more, and after that he was able to put life outside himself. After he had put life outside himself, he was able to achieve the brightness of dawn, and when he had achieved the brightness of dawn, he could see his own aloneness. After he had managed to see his own aloneness, he could do away with past and present, and after he had done away with past and present, he was able to enter where there is no life and no death. That which kills life does not die; that which gives life to life does not live.15 This is the kind of thing it is: thereâs nothing it doesnât send off, nothing it doesnât welcome, nothing it doesnât destroy, nothing it doesnât complete. Its name is Peace-in-Strife. After the strife, it attains completion.â
Nanpo Zikui asked, âWhere did you happen to hear this?â
âI heard it from the son of Aided-by-Ink, and Aided-by-Ink heard it from the grandson of Repeated-Recitation, and the grandson of Repeated-Recitation heard it from Seeing-Brightly, and Seeing-Brightly heard it from Whispered-Agreement, and Whispered-Agreement heard it from Waiting-for-Use, and Waiting-for-Use heard it from Exclaimed-Wonder, and Exclaimed-Wonder heard it from Dark-Obscurity, and Dark-Obscurity heard it from Participation-in-Mystery, and Participation-in-Mystery heard it from Copy-the-Source!â16
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