...footprints in the dust." "What you are reading can be nothing but the lees and scum of bygone men. . . . All that was worth handing on, died with them; the rest, they put in their books." The essential, said Lao-tzu, was fundamental knowledge, and he reproached Confucius...

...wheels. In my opinion it 1 In this whole passage I have used the text as given in Huai-nan Tzu, XII. must have been the same with the men of old. All that...were reading was the lees and scum of bygone men.' One day when Confucius went to see Lao Tzu, it was evident that Lao Tzu had been washing his hair,...

...it comes from the heart. It is a thing that cannot be put into words; there is an art in it that 1 cannot explain to my son. That is why it is impossible...died with them; the rest, they put into their books. . . . What you [are reading therefore is nothing but] the lees and scum of bygone men. 1 Surely it...

...threatening that if it was not convincing, he would put the blasphemer to death. The wheelwright replied, "When I am making a wheel, if my stroke is too slow,...were reading was the lees and scum of bygone men" (Waley 1939, pp. 15-16). The heart is described as the repository of the craftsman's skill. Experience...

...call the methods described by writers of the past as 'the lees and scum of bygone men', for, they say, 'all that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books'. There is a legend, told in the Chuang Tyu Book, of a meeting between Lao Tzu and Confucius. The great...