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

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7.A disciple said to Lu Chu: “Master, I have attained toyour Tao. I can do without fire in winter. I can make icein summer."“You merely avail yourself <strong>of</strong> latent heat and latentcold," replied Lu Chu. “That is not what I call Tao. Iwill demonstrate to you what my Tao is."<strong>The</strong>reupon he tuned two lutes, and placed one in thehall and the other in the adjoining room. And when hestruck the kung note on one, the kung note on the othersounded; when he struck the chio note on one, the chionote on the other sounded. This because they were bothtuned to the same pitch.But if he changed the interval <strong>of</strong> one string, so that it nolonger kept its place in the octave, and then struck it, theresult was that all the twenty-five strings jangledtogether. <strong>The</strong>re was sound as before, but the influence<strong>of</strong> the key-note was gone.

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