#zhuangzi

#zhuangzi

夫可規以利而可諫以言者，皆愚陋恆民之謂耳。。。。今丘告我以大城眾民，是欲規我以利而恆民畜我也，安可久長也？今長大美好，人見而悅之者，此吾父母之遺德也。丘雖不吾譽，吾獨不自知邪？ Anyone who can be regulated with promises of profit and admonished with slick words is what I would call a stupid, ignorant, ordinary sort of person....When you tell me all about the great territory and multitude of subjects I will have, you are trying to regulate me with promises of profit and make me tame like an ordinary person. How could any of that last?

In this issue, the complex themes of paradox, emptiness, and the interplay of absence and nothingness in Eastern thought are explored by various authors.