The Book of Lieh-tzu: A Classic of the Tao-- Burton Watson |
Contents
Heavens Gifts | 14 |
The Yellow Emperor | 32 |
King Mu of Chou | 58 |
Confucius | 74 |
The Questions of Tang | 92 |
Endeavour and Destiny | 118 |
Yang Chu | 135 |
Explaining Conjunctions | 158 |
Short Reading List | 182 |
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Page 13 - ... the broad coincidence of Daoism with the modern scientific outlook in its insistence on the littleness of man in a vast universe; the inhuman Tao which all things follow, without purpose and indifferent to human needs: the transience of life; the impossibility of knowing what comes after death; the unending change in which the possibility of progress is not even conceived; the relativity of values; a fatalism close to determinism, even a suggestion that the human organism operates like a machine.
Page 7 - If nothing within you stays rigid, Outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like a mirror. Respond like an...