Message from srae

[Anonymous]

I liked the intro evening a lot and look forward to the class's meetings. Thanks for all the background info and setting the stage for a course that offers texts, which I am thoroughly enjoying:

Somethings I liked in my readings:

From "Passages from the Laozi": (sic--underlining not working as I type)

" If you want to take from something, / Be sure to give to it. / This is called the brilliance of the minute. . . (Ebrey 29).

and. . .

In the preface to " Daoist Teachings":

"Whereas plants and animals act spontaneously in the ways appropriate to them, humans have separated themselves from the Way by plotting and planning, analyzing and organizing. Both texts [the Classic of the Way and Its Power and the Zhuangzi] reject social conventions for an ecstatic surrender to the sponaneity of cosmic processes" (Ebrey 27).

srae, 9/18/08