Lietse (12)

Lietse (12A)



1 When Chuang Tzu was dying of illness, his disciples started to prepare a solemn funeral for him.

2 Having known their idea, Chuang Tzu went all out to be against it. He argued, “I take heaven and earth as my tomb and take star, moon and sun as my buried items. Kin, friend and gods come to take part in my funeral. Isn’t it solemn and respectful enough? Why do you arrange another special funeral?”

3 His disciple said, “If it is the funeral that you have mentioned, we are afraid that crow and condor would peck your corpus.”

4 Chuang Tzu replied, “On land, condor eats up me. Doesn’t ant do it if underground? I will be eaten up on the ground or underground. Why do you take twists and turns to feed me to the underground one, instead of the one on the ground?”



Lietse (12B)

1 People all expect peace; however, it is impossible to gain peace by force. People all expect peace agreement with others; but it is a vain attempt to reach the public-accepted agreement by dishonest way.

2 People, who like playing tricks, are trapped eventually in their own tricks.

3 The factors proved that people, who have complete virtue and treat others in honest way, in the view of long term are surpass the man who likes playing tricks in terms of being trusted.

4 Most of people in this world however, don’t know it. Isn’t it miserable?