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Zhuangzi 2 Graham The sorting which evens things out The last word in the title chi’I wu lun is sometimes understood as discourse. (The discourse on evening things out), sometimes in its more basic sense of “ sort out in coherent discourse”.The theme of the chapter is the defence of a synthesising vision against Confucians, Mohists and Sophists., who analyse, distinguish alternatives and debate which is right or wrong.. It contains the most philosophically acute passages in the Inner chapters, obscure, fragmented, but pervaded by the sensation, rare in ancient literatures, of a man jotting the living thought at the moment of its inception. It is a pity that the Syncretist who assembled the chapter seems to have been out of sympathy with these intellectual subtleties designed to discredit the intellect, for he has relegated a number of closely related passages to the Mixed chapters (pp101-110). The pipes of men, the pipes of earth, the pipes of Heaven. Tsu-ch’i…looked up at the sky and exhaled, in a trance as though he had lost the counterpart of himself… Can the frame really be made to be like withered wood, the heart like dead ashes.? This time I had lost my own self. You hear the pipes of men, dont you, but not yet the pipes of earth, the pipes of earth but not yet the pipes of Heaven. The pipes of earth, are the various hollows; the pipes are men, these are rows of tubes. Let me ask about the pipes of Heaven. Who is it that puffs out the myriads which are never the same, who in their self ending is sealing them up, in their self choosing is impelling the force into them? Zhuangzi 2.2 transl. Angus Graham Great wit is effortless, Petty wit picks holes. Great speech is flavourless, Petty speech strings words. While it sleeps, the path of souls cross: When it wakes, the body opens. What ever we sense untangles it: Each day we use the heart of hours for strife. The calm ones, the deep ones, the deep ones. Petty fears intimidate, The supreme fear calms.