[b]Zhuangzi
You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog - he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect - he’s bound to a single season.[/b]
And here of course we all know the challenge of discussing anything with the Kids.
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.
What does that tell us then about, well, anthing?
Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.
In other words, strive to cease striving and see what happens.
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!
Let’s think up a useful reason for that.
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
Can this even be brought down to earth?
The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
Must be an Eastern thing, he thought.