Originally posted by BowmannThanks, I wanted to do that, but was too brucking lazy. 😴😴😴
To put one bruck upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.
But to sit with brucks around you
While the winds of heaven bawl
Weighing what you should or can do
Leaves no doubt of it at all.
For Boiled Chicken
Originally posted by BowmannAmphigory?
To put one bruck upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.
But to sit with brucks around you
While the winds of heaven bawl
Weighing what you should or can do
Leaves no doubt of it at all.
For Boiled Chicken
Lieh Tse left his home in Cheng and journeyed to the kingdom of Wei. While walking down a dusty road, he saw the remains of a skull lying by the wayside. Leih Tse saw that it was the skull of a human that was over a hundred years old. He picked up the bone, brushed the dirt off it, and looked at it for a while. Finally, he put the skull down, sighed, and said to his student who was standing nearby, "in this world, only you and i understand life and death." Turning to the skull he said "Are you unfortunate to be dead and are we fortunate to be alive? Maybe it is you who are fortunate and we who are unfortunate!"
Leih Tse then said to his student, "many people sweat and toil and feel satisfied that they have accomplished many things. However, in the end we are not all that different from this pollished piece of bone. In a hundred years, everyone we know will be just a pile of bones. What is there to gain in life, and what is there to lose in death?"
The ancients knew that life cannot go on for ever, and death is not the end of everything. Therefore, they are not excited by the event of life nor depressed by the occurence of death. Birth and death are part of the natural cycle of things. Only those who can see through the illusion of life and death can be renewed with heaven and earth and age with the sun, moon, and stars
Leih Tse