Wednesday, May 14, 2008

On This Dark Overcast Day - or - How Chung Tzu Would Bow to a Single Blade of Grass with a Dew Drop Half Way Down the Side of It

It is a dark, overcast day, with a hint of rain, and there is no coffee, but that is not important. I am thinking about Lao Tzu and Chung Tzu, and what it would be like if they were in my backyard, possibly wrestling in slow motion. This would never happen, of course, the two locked in wrestling moves. For starters, Lao Tzu wrestles nothing. And Chung Tzu would rather contemplate taking on a trembling blade of grass, with one purest dew-drop on the grass half way up that reflects in itself the entire moving sky, and bow to it with complete satisfaction.

2 comments:

Jennifer said...

Where does Chung Tzu come from?

JH

CM said...

He's an early figure in Taoist philosophy. He wrote an influential book exploring "Taoist" themes. But Chung Tzu would never say Chung Tzu was a Taoist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi