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THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM.
BK, XXIII.
between us? I wish to find in myself what there is in you, but I am not able to do so ?. You have now said to me, “ Maintain your body complete; hold your life in close embrace; and do not let your thoughts keep working anxiously.” With all my efforts to learn your Way, (your words) reach only my ears. Kăng-sang replied, 'I can say nothing more to you,' and then he added, 'Small flies cannot transform the bean caterpillar2 ; Yüeh 3 fowls cannot hatch the eggs of geese, but La fowls 3 can. It is not that the nature of these fowls is different ; the ability in the one case and inability in the other arise from their different capacities as large and small. My ability is small and not sufficient to transform you. Why should you not go south and see Lâo-zze?'
4. Nan-yung Kha hereupon took with him some rations, and after seven days and seven nights arrived at the abode of Lâo-gze, who said to him, · Are you come from Khu's?' 'I am,' was the reply. “And why, Sir, have you come with such a multitude of attendants*?' Nan-yung was frightened, and turned his head round to look behind him. Lâo-zze said, 'Do you not understand my meaning ?' The other held his head down and was ashamed, and then he lifted it up, and sighed, saying, 'I forgot at the moment what I should reply to your
· The p in the former of these sentences is difficult. I take it in the sense of , and read it phî.
Compare the Shih, II, v, Ode 2, 3. s I believe the fowls of Shan-tung are still larger than those of Kih-kiang or Fu-kien.
* A good instance of Lâo's metaphorical style.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |