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

principles, increasing the sum of human emotion, andforgetting the source from which his own life wasreceived. The ancients called such emotions the trammelsof mortality. The Master came, because it was his time tobe born; he went, because it was his time to die. Forthose who accept the phenomenon of birth and death inthis sense, lamentation and sorrow have no place. Theancients spoke of death as of God cutting down a mansuspended in the air. The fuel is consumed, but the firemay be transmitted, and we know not that it comes to anend.”2.To have attained to the human form must be always asource of joy. And then, to undergo countless transitions,with only the infinite to look forward to,--whatincomparable bliss is that! Therefore it is that the trulywise rejoice in that which can never be lost, but enduresalway.3.A son must go whithersoever his parents bid him. Natureis no other than a man's parents. If she bid me diequickly, and I demur, then I am an unfilial son. She cando me no wrong. Tao gives me this form, this toil inmanhood, this repose in old age, this rest in death. Andsurely that which is such a kind arbiter of my life is thebest arbiter of my death.