2010-10-10



Now I have something to say about these things. I don't know if it's similar to this, or if its dissimilar. But similar and dissimaler are quite similar in the end, so it can't be much different from that. But be that as it may, let me try to say it:

Being a beginning. Being not yet beginning to be a beginning. Being not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be a beginning. Being being. Being nonbeing. Being not yet beginning to be nonbeing. Being not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. Then suddenly, being nonbeing. And when it comes to being nonbeing, I don't know yet what's being and what's nonbeing.

There now: I've spoken. But I still don't know whether it was being spoken or nonbeing spoken.

--Chuang Tzu (trans. by David Hinton)


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