Chapter 731: Walking Along the Tree-Shaded Path in March

Walking along the tree-shaded path in March.

March 10: Walking along the tree-shaded path in March.

In March, nearly every tree-shaded path is already covered with the tender shoots of fragrant grass.

The earth said to me, "You don't recognize me again."

"You are so vast and profound, bearing the Three Mountains and Five Peaks and embracing the Five Lakes and Four Seas; countless living beings, birds, and beasts endlessly multiply upon you."

"The Way of Heaven and Earth is truly vast and profound, sublime and clear, distant and enduring; it cannot be summed up in a single sentence."

"Take the sky as an example: in terms of smallness, it is merely an accumulation of brightness, yet at times it is immensely vast, boundlessly vast. The sun, moon, and stars run across it day and night, and the constellations continually shine upon it."

"In this vast world, only the inexhaustibility of heaven and earth, ah! Who can regulate the Way of heaven and earth? Humans are merely a small, moving creature between heaven and earth, like a wave in the vast sea. No wonder the Master said by the river: 'The departed flow on like this.'"

"This reminds me of the river god Zhuangzi spoke of. The river god oversees a river; all boats coming and going, all merchants passing, he charges fees to everyone, none can evade; even the fish, shrimp, crabs, and turtles in the water all submit to him. This river god believed Laozi was the greatest under heaven, Africa I not belong. But when the autumn floods rose and he reached the sea, seeing that boundless expanse, he finally realized how truly vast heaven and earth are."

"What does this person amount to?"

"'Just as he comes naked from the womb, he must go naked; what he has gained through toil he cannot take with him; his arrival and departure are alike.'"

"Therefore, 'Do not take to heart what people say'; learn to forget, overlook others' faults, and let go of honor and disgrace."

"This: 'Between heaven and earth, everything has an owner; if it's not mine, not even a hair's breadth may be taken. Only on the river and with the Brightness moon among the mountains does the ear hear it as sound and the eye see it as color. It can never be exhausted in taking, nor depleted in use. This is the Creator's hidden store, and it is what we all share. ah………"

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