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• Le parfait voyageur

  21 octobre 2006, par eric

  In the beginning Lieh Tzu was fond of travelling. The adept Hu-ch’iu Tzu said to him, ’I hear that you are fond of travelling. What is it in travelling that pleases you’ ? ’For me’, said Lieh Tzu, ’the pleasure of travelling consists in the appreciation of variety. When some people travel they merely contemplate what is before their eyes ; when I travel, I contemplate the process of mutability.’ ’I wonder,’ said Hu-ch’iu Tzu, ’whether your travels are not very much the same as other (…)

• Apprendre par les livres ?

  21 octobre 2006, par eric

  A propos de l’apprentissage par les livres :
  Duke Han of Ch’I was reading a book at the upper end of the hall ; the wheelwright was making a wheel at the lower end. Putting aside his mallet and chisel, he called to the Duke and asked him what book he was reading. — ‘One that records the words of the Sages,’ answered the Duke.
  — ‘Are the Sages alive ?’ asked the wheelwright. ‘Oh, no,’ said the Duke, ‘they are dead.’
  — ‘In that case,’ said the wheelwright, (…)

• La machine, corruption de l’esprit ?

  21 octobre 2006, par eric

  L’outil, l’appareil, la machine sont -ils souhaitables ? La facilitation que ces machineries ne sont-elles pas illusoires, voire néfastes ? Pour continuer avec Zhuangzi :
  Tzu-kung, the disciple of Confucius, after travelling to Ch’u in the south, came back by way of Chin. When he was passing through Han-yin he saw an old man who was engaged in irrigating his vegetable plots. The way this old man did it was to let himself down into the well-pit by footholes cut in the side and emerge (…)

• Visite àKuala Lumpur

  20 octobre 2006, par eric

  Quelques photos de notre visite de KL

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