Taoism

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• On the other hand, to tell that lie is impossible because every statement has a reason. That reason is the truth of the statement. Ask two forty-year-old women their age. The first may answer, 'I am forty.' She answers this because, in fact, she is forty. The other may answer, 'I am thirty-five.' The reason she answers this is because she is afraid to lose her looks. From her lips 'I am thirty-five' means 'I fear old age'. The listener who understand the Tao of human nature catches this meaning. Her use of symbols was oblique, but to him she has told the truth. To him, meaning is problematical and can be determined neither with certainty nor out of the context of gestures, facial expressions and history. (查看原文)

  神経質な徒然 2013-03-15 01:21:25

• The Taoist understands the law of aggression and the indirect ways that it can operate. He knows that virtuousness or non-conformity can be as aggressive as insults or silence. He knows that even to be non-aggressive can be aggression, if by one's non-aggressiveness one makes others feel inferior. It is to make another person feel inferior that is the essence of aggression. (查看原文)

  神経質な徒然 2013-03-15 14:02:26