November 09, 2006
Dao De Jing (The Lao-Tzu Way), interpreted.
This is my new project. Bestowed by my personal therapist, during an in-house session. Fyi, Lao-Tzu's time was somewhere during the Zhou Dynasty. Specifically, the warring states period, i.e. 480 - 222 BC. Not like you would remember, right? Let's get on with it.
Te Ching - I
... The man of superior rectitude acts and has an ulterior motive for his action as well. The man superior in the observances of the rites acts, but when no one responds to his action rolls up his sleeves and resorts to dragging by force.
Hence, when the way was lost there was virtue; when virtue was lost there was benevolence; when benevolence was lost there was rectitude; when rectitude was lost there were the rites. ===
I think it's talking about the pathetic plight of mainstream teachers in today's school, with today's children. I was close to pulling my own hair a few times while I'm at work. What were you expecting? You can't bloody touch a single hair of these kids nowadays.
My personal rites would be to fold my arms, resigned, lean on the whiteboard and use my whiteboard markers to tap on the whiteboard and ask, in a rather pathetic manner, in Chinese, "Have you all finished talking? Is it my turn yet?"
But hey! It works. And bloody hell, the relief teacher covering my duties yesterday (while I sought the new way and new purpose in life) conveniently took my markers and forgot to put it back into my basket! I have to spend $1.10 to buy a new marker today. Damn.
Posted by 杏 cy （Jancy） at 22:01