Mister
East Wall asked Zhuangzi, “Where is this so-called Way?”
Zhuangzi
said, “There’s nowhere it isn’t.”
Mister
East Wall said “You must be more specific.”
Zhuangzi
said, “It’s in an ant.”
“How
about even lower?”
“It’s
in weeds.”
“How
about lower still?”
“In trash.”
“Even more?”
“It’s
in shit and piss.”
When
Mister East Wall did not reply, Zhuangzi said, “Your questions don’t get to the
substance. When the inspector of the hunt asked the superintendent of the
market about poking pigs for fatness, he was told the lower the better. But you
shouldn’t insist on that here. Don’t reject anything. The perfect Way is like this
and so are great words. ‘Whole,’ ‘everywhere,’ and ‘all’ are three different
names for the same thing, making a single point.
"Let's try wandering together in Nothing-at-all Castle, discoursing in unity without end. Try doing nothing together. Quiet and clear! Empty and pure! Harmonious and free!
"Once my goals are deserted, I go nowhere and don't know where I've gotten; leave and come and don't know where I've stopped; already been and back and don't know where it ends, dilly-dallying in the large barge.Great knowledge finds its way in but has no idea where it runs out.
What things things isn't conditioned by things. What we call conditions are the conditions things have. It's the the unconditioned condition the unconditioned which conditions. Talk about filling and emptying, dying and death. What does the filling and emptying isn't full or empty. What does the dying and death isn't dying or dead. What roots and branches is not a root or branch. What collects and distributes isn't collected or distributed." [1]