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Re: Luxin a la Lao Tzu Chapters
Luxin
"What is the way of happiness, master?"
"First of all, I am not your master.
Secondly, you are not speaking to me,
As I am not really in front of you;
You are dreaming this.
Nevertheless I will answer.
Also, I do not really belong
Here in front of you,
And speaking comes at a cost.
Nevertheless I will speak.
The Way of Happiness is simple --
So simple great ones cannot grasp it.
The first compulsion is to go uphill or downhill;
One jumps into the deep lake of Self,
Or one follows the many streams of self;
One is lost in a problematic "wilderness",
Or one is self assured with a sure fire plan.
Nevertheless, as the ancient fool said,
'More words count less;
Hold fast to the centre.'"[1]
Always appreciated Toaists and Buddhists and in general, Eastern interpretations of the world. But what do you think is the philosophical end of all this? I mean, philosophy is about questions that apply to what is given. It's about explaining things at the foundational level.
So here: how it that "more words count less"? I think it true! But provide a little philosophy on this. What are words and why are fewer of them better than more? How does this work? What do words do? All words? What is it about words that are interfering and what is it not to be interfered with?
And so on.