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syn = Reader of the sutras | syn = Reader of the sutras: [[Sw Ananda Teertha]]. | ||
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::Confucius was looking at the cataract at Luliang. It falls from a height of two hundred feet, and its foam reaches fifteen miles away. No scaly finny creature could survive therein. | |||
::Yet confucius saw an old man go in. Thinking the old man was suffering from some trouble and was therefore desirous of ending his life, Confucius bade a disciple run along the bank to try to save him. | |||
::The old man emerged about a hundred paces off, and with flowing hair, he went caroling along the bank. | |||
::Confucius followed him, and when he caught up with him he said: I had thought, sir, you were a spirit, but now I see you are a man. Kindly tell me, is there any way to deal thus with the water? | |||
::No, replied the man, I have no way; plunging in with the whirl, I come out with the swirl. I accommodate myself to the water, not the water to me. And so I am able to deal with it after this fashion. | |||
:([[Glossary#source_of_quotes_in_the_synopsis|source:''CD-ROM'']]) | |||
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prevevent = The Grass Grows by Itself ~ 03 | | prevevent = The Grass Grows by Itself ~ 03 | | ||
nextevent = The Grass Grows by Itself ~ 05 | | nextevent = The Grass Grows by Itself ~ 05 | |
Revision as of 11:48, 22 March 2019
event type | discourse |
date & time | 24 Feb 1975 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 22min. Quality: good. |
online audio | |
video | Not available |
online video | |
see also |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | GRASS04 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Confucius was looking at the cataract at Luliang. It falls from a height of two hundred feet, and its foam reaches fifteen miles away. No scaly finny creature could survive therein.
- Yet confucius saw an old man go in. Thinking the old man was suffering from some trouble and was therefore desirous of ending his life, Confucius bade a disciple run along the bank to try to save him.
- The old man emerged about a hundred paces off, and with flowing hair, he went caroling along the bank.
- Confucius followed him, and when he caught up with him he said: I had thought, sir, you were a spirit, but now I see you are a man. Kindly tell me, is there any way to deal thus with the water?
- No, replied the man, I have no way; plunging in with the whirl, I come out with the swirl. I accommodate myself to the water, not the water to me. And so I am able to deal with it after this fashion.
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