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David L. Hall Process and anarchy-A Taoist vision of creativity
The Ruler of the Northern Ocean was Shu (Heedless) the Ruler of the Southern
Ocean was Hu (Sudden), and the Ruler of the Center was Chaos. Shu and Hu
were continually meeting in the land of Chaos, who treated them very well.
They consulted together how they might repay his kindness, and said, 'Men
all have seven orifices for the purpose of seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing,
while this (poor) Ruler alone has not one. Let us try and make them for him.'
Accordingly they dug one orifice in him every day; and at the end of seven days
Chaos died.'
This allegory, which succinctly expresses Taoist sentiments concerning the role
of discursive knowledge in human affairs, no doubt strikes the non-Chinese
mind as somewhat odd because of the solicitude shown for Chaos. Indeed,
James Legge, the British sinologist, whose lack of sympathy with much of
Chinese culture often led him to misunderstand the texts he so......

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