(The Chuang Tzu is a 2300-year-old book of Taoist wisdom.)
"Whatever has an appearance or a semblance, whatever makes a sound or has a color -- they're all things. One thing can't be that much different from another. Which should take precedence? They're all just bright appearances.
"But what creates things is formless and stays at the still point of the changeless. Now, whoever gets hold of this and dwells in it alone may not be detained, may not be stopped by things. People like this can inhabit a place where there is no excess, can hide in a space that has no hint of a boundary, and can ramble free and easy from the endings to the beginnings of the ten thousand things. They will be at one with the heart they were born with, nourish their ch'i, harmonize the power of their virtue, and get through to that which creates things. What is heaven-born they sustain, complete, within them. What is of the spirit is never rejected. How could mere things confound them?"
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You did this before our dinner? And after our last meeting? There was time? Are there two of you? What a profound place you guys are at. - Nietsnibur Lah.
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