The Three Principle Texts of Daoism translated by ... - Bad Request

irth to old age becomes something different every dayin face and form, in wisdom and in conduct. His skin, hisnails and his hair are continually growing andcontinually perishing. In infancy and childhood there isno stopping nor respite from change. Thoughimperceptible while it is going on, it may be verifiedafterwards if we wait."The End is MisleadingTHERE WAS once a man in the Ch'i State who was soafraid the universe would collapse and fall to pieces,leaving his body without a lodgment, that he couldneither sleep nor eat. Another man, pitying his distress,went to enlighten him. “Heaven," he said, “is nothingmore than an accumulation of ether, and there is noplace where ether is not. Processes of contraction andexpansion, inspiration and expiration arc continuallytaking place up in the heavens. Why then should you beafraid of a collapse?"The man said: “It is true that Heaven is an accumulationof ether; but the sun, the moon, and the stars—will theynot fall down upon us?"His informant replied: “Sun, moon and stars are likewiseonly bright lights within this mass of ether. Evensupposing they were to fall, they could not possibly harm