Napping

Huizi said, 'How can people exist without helping life?'

Zhuangzi said, 'The Way gave them a face, Heaven gave them a form - by not letting likes and dislikes in to do harm, that's how. But you shut out your spirit, and tire your energies, leaning on a podium ranting, slumping at your desk and napping. Heaven chose a form for you, and you use it to sing of "hard and white"!'

-Zhuangzi Ch. 5

Translation by Paul Kjellberg in Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Van Norden and Ivanhoe editors.

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