his parents, would be like the man of Ch'i who dug a well and then wanted to keep others away from it.
- Forgetting that God put the spring there in the first instance.
Hence the saying that the men of to-day are all Huans.
Wherefore it follows that men of true virtue are unconscious of its possession. How much more then the man of Tao? This is what the ancients called escaping the vengeance of God.
- Which would be incurred by aping his goodness.
The true Sage rests in that which gives rest, and not in that which does not give rest. The world rests in that which does not give rest, and not in that which does give rest.
- The natural and the artificial.
Chuang Tzŭ said, "To know Tao is easy. The difficulty lies in the elimination of speech. To know Tao without speech appertains to the natural. To know Tao with speech appertains to the artificial. The men of old were natural, not artificial.
"Chu P'ing Man spent a large patrimony in learning under Chih Li I how to kill dragons.
- To acquire Tao. There is no record of the persons mentioned.
By the end of three years he was perfect, but there was no direction in which he could show his skill.
- Tao cannot be put into practice.
