shots, everybody in the world would be another Yi.
- See p. 308.
Could this be so?"
"It could," replied Hui Tzŭ.
"If there was no general standard of right in the world," continued Chuang Tzŭ, "but each man had his own, then everybody would be a Yao. Could this be so?"
"It could," replied Hui Tzŭ.
"Very well," said Chuang Tzŭ. "Now there are the Confucianists, the Mihists, the schools of Yang
- Yang Chu. See ch. viii.
and Ping,
- Kung Sun Lung. See ch. xvii.
making with your own five in all. Pray which of these is right?
"Possibly it is a similar case to that of Lu Chü?
- Of whom there is no record.
—A disciple said to him, 'Master, I have attained to your Tao. I can do without fire in winter: I can make ice in summer.'
"'You merely avail yourself of latent heat and latent cold,' replied Lu Chü. 'That is not what I call Tao. I will demonstrate to you what my Tao is.'
"Thereupon he tuned two lutes, and placed one in the hall and the other in the adjoining room.
