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**hrthwhr** · 04-11-2006, 02:59 PM

Chuang Tzu, Chapter 13, translation by Burton Watson:

"The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still. Water that is still gives back a clear image of beard and eyebrows; reposing in the water level, it offers a measure to the great carpenter. And if water in stillness possesses such clarity, how much more must a pure spirit. "

04-11-2006, 02:59 PM	#10
hrthwhr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 368 Senior Member	Chuang Tzu, Chapter 13, translation by Burton Watson: "The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still. Water that is still gives back a clear image of beard and eyebrows; reposing in the water level, it offers a measure to the great carpenter. And if water in stillness possesses such clarity, how much more must a pure spirit. "
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