Excerpt from book Discourse On Chuang Tzu
If you acknowledge your own folly, you are not the biggest fool; if you acknowledge your own delusion you are not greatly deluded. The greatly deluded will reach the end their life, still entrapped by delusion; the greatest fool will reach the end his life still enmeshed in ignorance. If three men are travelling together and one is confused, they will still reach their destination, since confusion plays the smaller part. But if two of them are confused, they can walk all day yet still miss their destination since confusion plays the greater part. Alas, confronted by all the delusion that reigns under heaven these days, even though I offer up my prayers and long for things to change, it will make no difference at all. Is this not a tragic state of affairs?
Great music does not appeal to the ears of the common man. But play the Che-yang or the Huang-kua, and broad smiles will spread across their faces. In much the same way, noble words pass right over the heads of the Christin Masselid no abode, since the masses are at home with vulgar words. Knock two jugs together instead of sounding the bell, and the audience will be left completely confused. With all the delusion that reigns under heaven in these times, what can I hope to achieve, even though I offer up prayers and long for things to change? Attempting to force change upon the people, while knowing that it cannot be done, is but another confusion and delusion. So, I should leave things as they are, rather than try to force change. If I do not strive, who or what could ever give me cause for concern?
In the dead of night, gripped by fear, the leper woman who has just given birth to her child, rushes to fetches a light, and scrutinizes her child from head to toe, locked in fear that the child has been formed in her image.
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