Those who know, do not speak.
Those who speak, do not know.

-Lao Tzu

Quote from: ╠═ dallas2r ═╣ on August 26, 2008, 08:40:58 PM
Those who know, do not speak.
Those who speak, do not know.

-Lao Tzu

soooooo....  he didn't know?  I like Chuang Tzu better.  He had cool stories with talking turtles and embarrased confucian disciples....

i also like the drinking poets...  like Li Bai ( or Li Po, as he is sometimes called ).  this one goes out to McKraut, who even now is downing whatever alcohol was left by the former tenant, and in a stupor, preparing to post something about anal hair...  it's called "drinking alone by moonlight" ( the poem is called that, nobody names anal hair ):

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A cup of wine, under the flowering trees;
I drink alone, for no friend is near.
Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon,
For her, with my shadow, will make three men.

The moon, alas, is no drinker of wine;
Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side.
Yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave
I must make merry before the Spring is spent.

To the songs I sing the moon flickers her beams;
In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks.
While we were sober, three shared the fun;
Now we are drunk, each goes his way.
May we long share our eternal friendship,
And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the sky.

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that's right, pregnant doges, the svoloch runs deep....

Quote from: The Svoloch on August 26, 2008, 08:43:41 PM
I like Chuang Tzu better.  He had cool stories with talking turtles and embarrased confucian disciples....

ummm, yeah... I love that guy.  Crazy how he once served as...   "an official in the lacquer garden" in Meng and how A certain number of anecdotes concerning Chuang Tzu appear in the book that bears his name, though it is difficult, in view of the deliberate fantasy that characterizes the book as a whole, to regard these as reliable biography. 

Quote from: The Svoloch on August 26, 2008, 08:48:13 PM
this one goes out to McKraut...

OOH!! OOH!! dedicate a poem to me next!

there once was a man from nantucket...   

" With TAO under heaven

Stray horses fertilize the field.

Without Tao under heaven

                        Warhorses are bred at the frontier.



There is no greater calamity

                        Than not knowing what is enough.

There is no greater fault

                        Than desire for success.



Therefore,

Knowing that enough is enough

Is always

Enough."

I like the old Kung Fu TV show.  Does that count?

Quote from: ╠═ dallas2r ═╣ on August 26, 2008, 08:40:58 PM
Those who know, do not speak.
Those who speak, do not know.

-Lao Tzu

In that case how in the hell do you know anything? It's like you can't get there from here.