八 · 道 · Mind · 1:18
The archer, the rooster and the knife
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In the book Liezi, the archer Fei Wei tells Ji Chang: “First learn not to blink.”
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Ji Chang lay two years under his wife's loom, eyes on the treadle as it rose and fell.
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“Now learn to see the small as large.” He hung a louse on a hair in his window.
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In three years it looked as big as a wheel. His arrow went through it; the hair held.
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In the Zhuangzi, a king's fighting rooster. Ten days: proud. Twenty: it leaps at shadows.
Text Wikisource: 達生
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Forty: others crow and it does not move. It looks carved of wood. The others run.
Text Wikisource: 達生
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In the same book, Cook Ding: “After three years I no longer saw the whole ox.”
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“Now I meet it with my spirit, not with my eyes. My knife is nineteen years old.”