Why Did Lao-Tze Say That…
Saturday, February 27th, 2010It has been one of the most beautiful winters I have had. Boundless forest sheds its leaves shower by shower; endless snowfalls roll its waves hour after hour. Matsuo Bashō would be happy to say
“now then, let’s go out
to enjoy the snow… until
I slip and fall!”
いざさらば
雪見に転ぶ
所まで
Still lingering in Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, no wonder Confucius after a concert for three months did not know the taste of meat, “I never knew music could reach this level of excellence!”. Almost envy Haňt’a, the compacter of wastepaper and books who lived at the lowest at the low, and who knew Talmud, Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer by heart, not to mention the appearance of Jesus and Lao-tze standing side by side in his dimly and musty cellar…