Showing posts with label Chuang Tae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chuang Tae. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

A Dream, or so it may Seem?

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Confucius and you are both dreams, and I who say you are dreams am a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may explain it; that tomorrow will not be for ten thousand generations.”

Chuang Tse: II

Sunday, May 15, 2022

The Lathe of Heaven

“Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.”

Chuang Tae: XXIII

The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Leguin, 1971