Waley
Such the scope of the All-pervading Power. That it alone can act through the Way. For the Way is a thing impalpable, incommensurable. Incommensurable, impalpable. Yet latent in it are forms; Impalpable, incommensurable Yet within it are entities. Shadowy it is and dim; Yet within it there is a force, Is none the less efficacious. From the times of old till now Its charge has not departed But cheers onward the many warriors. How do I know that the many warriors are so? Through this. (…)
Excertos de obras literárias, cênicas e gráficas, além de crítica literária, com foco no imaginal mitográfico, lendário e fantástico.
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XXI - La grande Vertu et la Voie
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XX - Sans soucis
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
Between wei and o What after all is the difference? Can it be compared to the difference between good and bad? The saying “what others avoid I too must avoid” How false and superficial it is? All men, indeed, are wreathed in smiles, As though feasting after the Great Sacrifice, As though going up to the Spring Carnival. I alone am inert, like a child that has not yet given sign; Like an infant that has not yet smiled. I droop and drift, as though I belonged nowhere. All men have (…) -
XIX - Les préceptes et le vrai appui
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
Banish wisdom, discard knowledge, And the people will be benefited a hundredfold.
Banish human kindness, discard morality, And the people will be dutiful and compassionate.
Banish skill, discard profit, And thieves and robbers will disappear.
If when these three things are done they find life too plain and unadorned, Then let them have accessories; Give them Simplicity to look at, the Uncarved Black to hold, Give them selflessness and fewness of desires.
Banish learning, and (…) -
XVIII - Quand la grande Voie est déchue
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
It was when the Great Way declined That human kindness and morality arose;
It was when intelligence and knowledge appeared That the Great Artifice began.
It was when the six near ones were no longer at peace That there was talk of “dutiful sons”;
Nor till fatherland was dark with strife Did we hear of “loyal slaves”.
Wieger
A. Quand l’action conforme au Principe dépérit (quand les hommes cessèrent d’agir spontanément avec bonté et équité), ou inventa les principes (…) -
XVII - Le princes sages...
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
Of the highest the people merely know that such a one exists; The next they draw near to and praise. The next they shrink from, intimidated; but revile. Truly, “It is by not believing people that you turn them into liars”. But from the Sage it is so hard at any price to get a single word That when his task is accomplished, his work done, Throughout the country every one says: “It happened of its own accord”.
Wieger
A. Dans les premiers temps (quand, dans les choses humaines, (…) -
XVI - Le maximum du vide
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
Push far enough towards the Void, Hold fast enough to Quietness, And of the ten thousand things none but can be worked on by you. I have beheld them, whither they go back. See, all things howsoever they flourish Return to the root from which they grew. This return to the root is called Quietness; Quietness is called submission to Fate; What has submitted to Fate has become part of the always so. To know the always-so is to be Illumined; Not to know it, means to go blindly to (…) -
Watts: Wiggly
21 de fevereiro de 2018Apart from such human artifacts as buildings and roads (especially Roman and American roads), our universe, including ourselves, is thoroughly wiggly. Its features are wiggly in both shape and conduct. Clouds, mountains, plants, rivers, animals, coastlines—all wiggle. They wiggle so much and in so many different ways that no one can really make out where one wiggle begins and another ends, whether in space or in time. Some French classicist of the eighteenth century complained that the (…)
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XV - Les Sages d’auparavant
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
Of old those that were the best officers of Court Had inner natures subtle, abstruse, mysterious, penetrating, Too deep to be understood. And because such men could not be understood I can but tell of them as they appeared to the world: Circumspect they seemed, like one who in winter crosses a stream, Watchful, as one who must meet danger on every side. Ceremonious, as one who pays a visit; Yet yielding, as ice when it begins to melt. Blank, as a piece of uncarved wood; Yet receptive (…) -
XIV - La Voie n’est pas sensible
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but cannot hear it, It is called the rarefied. Because the hand feels for it but cannot find it, It is called the infinitesimal. These three, because they cannot be further scrutinized, Blend into one, Its rising brings no light; Its sinking, no darkness. Endless the series of things without name On the way back to where there is nothing. They are called shapeless shapes; Forms without (…) -
XIII - Faveur et disgrâce
21 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
Favour and disgrace goad as it were to madness; High rank hurts keenly as our bodies hurt.”
What does it mean to say that favour and disgrace goad as it were to madness? It means that when a rule’s subjects get it they turn distraught, When they lose it they turn distraught. That is what is meant to by saying favour and disgrace goad as it were to madness. What does it mean to say that high rank hurts keenly as our bodies hurt? The only reason that we suffer hurt is that we have (…)
