Webbed Toes (1)

1 A man his thumb and forefinger are joined together or an extra finger grows beside his normal five; although the webbed toes are born to be there, they are superfluous as far as the normal nature of human is concerned.

2 Goiter and tumor grow from human’s body. As far as the human’s nature is concerned, they are redundant and unnecessary.

3 The Ju (Confucianist) always advocates such practices as benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and credit. If we force them to be the born virtues, they don’t gear with us, or even obsess us because these artificial codes of conduct are not the essence of moral rules.

4 So the goiter and tumor are useless, as is the extra finger out of the five. The moral rules that our knowledge and intelligence impose on ourselves, such as benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and credit, are superfluous and unnecessary too.

5 With super eyesight, Li Zhu was acute to various colors whereas he indulged himself in designing shape and spent his energy in matching color and making the sacrifice clothes. With super audition, Shi Kuang was a famous musician. He was excellent in distinguishing various sounds, so he was overly fastidious at matching harmony and the playing instruments that were made of metal, stone, silk, bamboo, yellow bell and great tube.

6 Shi You and Zeng Can were Confucius’s disciples. To fish for fame, they set some standard of the benevolence and righteousness unconventionally or unorthodoxly, which made people confused with their disputes and made them do thing at a loss. Yang zhu and Mo Qu were busy in debate, analysis and search on far-off-the-substance problems, such as: the feeling of a stone is white by eye and the feeling of a stone is hard by hand and whether the two different feelings are describing the same stone or actually they are two different stones. So we should beware of their keen observation and redundant useless knowledge used by them as the tool to misguide people.

7 The right knowledge is sure to keep human original self-nature from being distorted. The webbed toes form the sole but there are still gaps between those toes that they are always separate. Each finger has its own shape and function, none is superfluous, the long one to the point in length, the short one not defective.

8 The duck’s legs are short but you should not prolong them self-assertively. The crane’s legs are long; however, if you think they are too long and cut them short, you are killing him.

9 Alas! Never self-assertively cut off the long one and prolong the short one, which infringes self-nature.

10 Additionally, we should accept the change. The Tao of Nature is varying. As long as it is the change of Nature, we should delightedly accept it.

11 However, we recognize that the so called benevolence and righteousness definitely are not a part of self-nature because they are artificial.

12 Possessing of the benevolence and righteousness in mind, those who think themselves beneficent sign the inconstancy of human relationships. Boring.

13 The careerist greedily loot fame and wealth in the name of loving something. Damn it.

14 Therefore, the benevolence and righteousness are sure not a part of the self-nature. For a long time in the human history, they have made people’s mind stray and upset, which is miserable. We just don’t help it to do evil anymore.