XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
   > {:-]))) wrote:   
   >   
   >> When Zz was asked to help the government   
   >> he told the emissaries to shove off.   
   >>   
   >> No Sage worth the salt poured into politics   
   >> would be a member of such a club.   
   >>   
   >> No matter which end is used of it.   
   >> A club is a club. Unless and until it isn't.   
   >>   
   >> To rise above a political state-of-mind   
   >> one might find oneself being.   
   >>   
   >> - apolitical   
   >   
   >The DDJ is written for rulers and would-be   
   >rulers.   
      
   And once upon a time Lao Tzu went west,   
   as if he existed in the first place.   
      
   >To exclude some spheres a priori   
   >from the reach of the sage is to limit his   
   >freedom, a very anti-Daoist thingie.   
      
   The Zhuangzi was written by many people.   
      
   Gnarly trees know how to live.   
      
   Sometimes they grow tall, and prosper.   
      
   To be a honkless goose in politics   
   might be to find one's self being invited for dinner.   
      
   The Sage is always invisible.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)