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randy_byers) wrote2010-07-07 08:07 am
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'This chapter is full of words like huang (wild, barren; famine), tun (ignorant; chaotic), hun (dull, turbid), men (sad, puzzled, mute), and hu (confused, obscured; vague). They configure chaos, confusion, a "bewilderness" in which the mind wanders without certainties, desolate, silent, awkward. But in that milky, dim strangeness lies the way. It can't be found in the superficial order imposed by positive and negative opinions, the good/bad, yes/no moralizing that denies fear and ignores mystery.'
-- Ursula K. Le Guin, notes on her English version of the Tao Te Ching
-- Ursula K. Le Guin, notes on her English version of the Tao Te Ching