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Meditating on the Dao

November 17, 2009

My favorite line of the Daodejing:

不欲琭琭如玉
珞珞如石

Do not desire what jingles like jade,
but what rumbles like rock!

Text via Wengu, translation by Philip Ivanhoe.

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3 Comments
  1. phil_style permalink
    November 18, 2009 12:04 pm

    I couldn’t help but revise that a fraction.

    Do not desire what rumbles like rock;
    but what jangles like jazz!

  2. Chris permalink
    November 18, 2009 1:44 pm

    You beat me to it! Only the latter category will be present at SBL, I think.

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