Does anyone know what poem this is? I’m sure it’s Chinese, because I read it in Chinese in Chinese class. I thought it was one of the 300 Tang poems, but I couldn’t find it there.
A man is standing on a bridge, He looks at the water flowing under the bridge and says “The water is standing still and the bridge is moving.”
Thanks.
[quote=“bababa”]Does anyone know what poem this is? I’m sure it’s Chinese, because I read it in Chinese in Chinese class. I thought it was one of the 300 Tang poems, but I couldn’t find it there.
A man is standing on a bridge, He looks at the water flowing under the bridge and says “The water is standing still and the bridge is moving.”
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I think it was Lord Lucan who said that one night after downing a few pints at Carnegie’s.
Does he wonder oif the fish are happy? If so, sounds like Zhuang Zi.
HG
Right. I see the pints and know they are happy.
There is a well-known Viet Namese saying about watching the [color=brown]brown fish swimming by in the river.[/color]
And they ain’t talking about fish…hint hint…nudge nudge…
I’m sure it’s not what you were after, but anyway, are the fish indeed blind mullets? I believe Chuang Tse cunningly left that to our own imaginations. That was the sort of guy he was, I guess.
Still it is a classic passage.
魚之樂
莊子與惠子游于濠梁之上。莊子曰：“儵（讀音tiao二聲，鰷）魚出遊從容，是魚之樂也。”
惠子曰：“子非魚，安知魚之樂？”
莊子曰：“子非我，安知我不知魚之樂？”
惠子曰：“我非子，固不知之矣；子固非魚也，子之不知魚之樂，全矣。”
莊子曰：“請循其本。子曰‘汝安知魚之樂’雲者，既已知吾知之而問我，我知之濠上也。”
HG
Apply that logic to the next management meeting you have - all will become clear.
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