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

2.For travelling by water there is nothing like a boat. Fortravelling by land there is nothing like a cart. Thisbecause a boat moves readily in water; but were you totry to push it on land you would never succeed in makingit go. Now ancient and modern times may be likenedunto water and land; Chou and Lu to the boat and thecart. To try to make the customs of Chou succeed in Lu,is like pushing a boat on land: great trouble and noresult, except certain injury to oneself. . . .Dress up a monkey in the robes of Chou Kung, and itwill not be happy until they are torn to shreds. And thedifference between past and present is much the same asthe difference between Chou Kung and a monkey.3.When Hsi Shih [1] was distressed in mind, she knitted herbrows. An ugly woman of the village, seeing howbeautiful she looked, went home, and having workedherself into a fit frame of mind, knitted her brows. Theresult was that the rich people of the place barred uptheir doors and would not come out, while the poor