"Do you know the fate of the praying mantis? It angrily stretches out its arms, to arrest the progress of a carriage, unconscious of its inability for such a task, but showing how much it thinks of its own powers. Be on your guard; be careful. If you cherish a boastful confidence in you own excellence, and place yourself in collision, you are likely to incur the same fate."
-- Zhuangzi
Mood: ready for 6pm Music: "04_dredg_tanbark_live-kjw" by Dredg
"The late sun lights river and mountain. A spring wind blows fragrant grass and flowers. The soil thaws. Swallows swoop and soar. On the warm sand, sleep drake and duck."
-- Du Fu
Mood: Snapped in two Music: "Just Like Honey" by The Jesus & Mary Chain
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Mood: Post "King of Masks" Music: "Fucking Smile" by Dredg
And Still... Zhuangzi Wednesday, March 10th [12:54 am]
"When a sage is born with all his excellence, it is other men who see it for him. If they did not tell him, he would not know that he was more excellent than others. And when he knows it, he is as if he did not know it; when he hears it, he is as if he did not hear it."
Mood: blamed Music: "Carl Weathers" by Budriver and Radioinactive with Daedelus
Zhuangzi Continues... Tuesday, March 9th [3:13 pm]
"The sage comprehends the connections between himself and others, and how they all go to constitute him of one body with them, and he does not know how it is so - he naturally does so. In fulfilling his constitution, as acted on and acting, he simply follows the direction of Heaven; and it is in consequence of this that men style him a sage. If he were troubled about the insufficiency of his knowledge, what he did would always be small, and sometimes would be arrested altogether - how would he in this case be a sage?"
Mood: retired Music: "2004-03-08 CF2" by Howard Stern
"The sage comprehends the connections between himself and others, and how they all go to constitute him of one body with them, and he does not know how it is so - he naturally does so. In fulfilling his constitution, as acted on and acting, he simply follows the direction of Heaven; and it is in consequence of this that men style him a sage. If he were troubled about the insufficiency of his knowledge, what he did would always be small, and sometimes would be arrested altogether - how would he in this case be a sage?"
Importance of Spaciousness Thursday, February 19th [6:46 am]
"The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space for the axle that the use of the wheels depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their hollowness that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out from the walls to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space within that its use depends. Therefore, what has a positive existence serves for profitable adaptation; and what has not that, for actual usefulness."
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