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can he be without passions and desires?' reply was, 'You are misunderstanding what I mean by passions and desires. What I mean when I say that he is without these is, that this man does not by his likings and dislikings do any inward harm to his body; he always pursues his course without effort, and does not (try to) increase his (store of) life.' Hui-zze rejoined, 'If there were not that increasing of (the amount) of life, how would he get his body1?' Kwang-ze said, 'The Tâo gives him his personal appearance (and powers); Heaven gives him his bodily form; and he does not by his likings and dislikings do any internal harm to his body. But now you, Sir, deal with your spirit as if it were something external to you, and subject your vital powers to toil. You sing (your ditties), leaning against a tree; you go to sleep, grasping the stump of a rotten dryandra tree. Heaven selected for you the bodily form (of a man), and you babble about what is strong and what is white 2."
PT. I. SECT. V. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-8ZE.
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Apparently a gross meaning attached by Hui-zze to Kwang-zze's
words.
2 Kwang-zze beats down his opponent, and contemptuously refers to some of his well-known peculiarities;-as in II, par. 5, XXXIII, par. 7, and elsewhere.
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