November 16, 2006
Dao De Jing (The Lao-Tzu Way), interpreted.
Te Ching - 2... Hence it is necessarily the case that the noble has as its root the humble and the high has its foundation the low. Now this is why lords and princes refer to themselves as 'solitary', 'desolate' and 'hapless'. This is the humble as root, is it not?
Thus the highest renown is without renown. Hence wishing not to be one among many like jade, nor to be aloof like stone.===
Ok. This is, easier said than done. And I've been wanting to add this to what I heard over the radio that morning.
"And, until you can find contentment within yourself, you will not know how to love with commitment."
Gospel? Pending...
xxx
Te Ching - 3
When the best student is told about the way, it is barely within his power to grasp it;
When the average student is told about the way, it seems to him one moment there and gone the next;
When the worst student is told about the way, he laughs out loud at it.
If he did not laugh at it, it would not have been good enough to be the way. [...]===
I think it describes my trajectory in the Sociology Dept of NUS rather aptly. I was never the worst student. I didn't laugh at anything. It either got too confusing or too complicated or too stressful to laugh about.
Can never forget my 'D' for Medical Soci term paper. Even though, OK! It's my fault. Am I blaming anyone beside myself? No, not really. But I just like to whine about it from time to time. heh.
Oh! And, the traumatic "So what?!" term paper.
Posted by 杏 cy （Jancy） at 17:48