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[felicula]

"Liu Ling . . . was famous for his uninhibited behavior and freedom from the rules and mores of polite society. Sometimes, having drunk much wine, he would take off his clothes and sit naked in his room. When criticized for doing this by one of his visitors, Liu responded, 'The universe is my home; the room my trousers -- what are you doing in my trousers?'"

-from "Taoism" in Eastern Religions edited by Michael D. Coogan, p.259

Comments

[ninepointsatyr.livejournal.com]

I'm keeping that quote, it's fantastic.

Taoism is the happiest philosophy for me. I keep my copies (I need multiple translations, and there's a book I've seen that gives the breakdown word-by-word in Chinese of the meaning, including multiple translations and associations for each symbol) of the Tao Te Ching next to my Bagavad Gita. On one hand you have action and the other effortlessness and everything else lies between.

So yeah, I love hearing their quotes. It's exactly the sort of thing that I'd expect to hear from a person who is in wu wei.

[blackfelicula.livejournal.com]

I love that quote. It was in one of my Eastern Religions texts. I like Taoism, though I have a current fascination with just how far-ranging various forms of sacrifice were in prehistory.