/lit/ - Literature

>>14112943
Zhuangzi

more like the tao te chink haha amirite fellas

The Way is so vast that when you use it, something is always left.

How deep it is!

It seems to be the ancestor of the myriad things.

It blunts sharpness

Untangles knots

Softens the glare

Unifies with the mundane.

It is so full!

It seems to have remainder.
It is the child of I-don't-know-who.

And prior to the primeval Lord-on-high.

>>10388643

This book has changed me in so many ways. If there is one book everyone should read it's this one.

You can look at it, but you can't see it; it has no color, no size
You can listen to it, but you can't hear it; it has no tone, no words
You can grasp it, but you can't hold it; it has no texture, no shape
These three senses can not measure its depths
It passes beyond where they mingle and become one

One - there is nothing greater around it
Nothing smaller inside
It has no edge, no definition, no name
And it is constantly returning to itself
It is the form of formlessness
The image of imagelessness
Subtle and hidden

How can you follow what has no back
How can you lead what has no front
Stay with it, here and now, and you will find
The thread that runs unbroken from the ancient past

This was the first book I read purely for pleasure.

Thoughts on it?

Some parts of it are pretentious scribblings, but overall, it's interesting material that makes you think.

Dao that can be talked about is not the eternal Dao itself;
A name that can be given is not the eternal thing itself.
The nameless existed
Before the birth of birth of Heaven and Earth - Universe;
The names which were given were after
The birth of All Things.
By the eternity of unknown existence
Comprehend the common essence of things;
By the eternity of Existence
Observe the apparent differences.
These two came from the same origin - the unknown,
But with different names.
They all are called the "profoundness",
Profoundly and profoundly it is the entrance
From which come all wonders.