beancurdturtle

My brain must be too shallow - I've missed your point.

哪里，哪里？ Your words are too kind. I think the value in Merel's interpolation is, he avoids the trap so many others fall into - he doesn't try to make it profound. The Dao de Jing becomes more pragmatic and simple the longer you are exposed to it. Profoundness is overrated. Haha!

Hi Barry. Don't let it get to you, don't fight back. People get tired of bellowing into a vacuum. BTW. I haven't been here long enough to give an official welcome. But I understand your sentiment.

How do you abstain from jumping off a cliff? You choose not to - then don't. You have a choice. Choose to stop eating them if that's your wish. Then don't eat them.

Play something on my fipple flutes.

No, no, no...

Well, it's not Eastern - but the following (one of my favorites) feels pretty "Dao" to me.