Re: Workshops Review #06
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 7, 2005, 19:14 |
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on 3/7/05 3:30 AM, Isaac Penzev at isaacp@UKR.NET wrote:
> P.S. I'm not too active now because of Real Life (TM). On the 20th of Adar
> I, 5765 (=March 1, 2005) my wife bore us a child - our second son!
>
> -- Yitzik
Congrats.
--
Hanuman Zhang
"...So what is life for? Life is for beauty and substance and sound and
colour; and even those are often forbidden by law [socio-cultural
conventions].
. . . Why not be free and live your own life? Why follow other people's
rules and live to please others?..."
- Lieh-Tzu/Liezi, Taoist Sage (c. 450- c. 375 BCE)
From bamboogrove.com:
# The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were a group of Chinese scholars
# and poets of the mid-3rd century AD who banded together to escape from
# the hypocrisy and danger of the official world to a life of drinking
# wine and writing verse in the country. Their retreat was typical of the
# Taoist-oriented ch'ing-t'an ("pure conversation") movement that advocated
# freedom of individual expression and hedonistic escape from extremely
# corrupt politics. Their ideal consisted in following their impulses and
# acting spontaneously. Their outstanding collective characteristic was
# their sensitivity to the beauties of nature.