Tao Te Ching are full with complicated verses, but if you would to look deeper into what the words are trying to say you’ll get a better understanding of it. When I first read a verse from Tao Te Ching I was thinking of what the verse’s message was, but I couldn’t figure it out right away. The verse kept me thinking of what the message could mean. For instance, in verse one translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English I didn’t understand it at first, but then I understood it as that something or someone’s name can be very important to you, but not to someone else. For example,Tuesday, May 2, 2017 may be another day for other people, but for me it was the day of a concert I was excited for. I had been waiting to see the weeknd, the artist’s performance …show more content…
For me when I hear that name I think of my love I have for my mom and the memories we share together. In verse one others may have understood it differently,but I understood it has one may have meaning to you, but not to others. Another verse that I liked was verse two translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English. Verse two made me realize that once I say something is pretty or beautiful I'm also saying that something else is ugly at the same time. An example I could think of is you’re at a store and you see a shirt and think that’s a pretty shirt and the one next to it is ugly. When that happens you’re saying one is prettier than the other without you even noticing it. To make it more clearer, we see an individual and we think that they are attractive and when we think that we are not noticing that we are also saying that other individuals that don't look like that aren't attractive. The verse is saying that we are choosing things that we think are beautiful and we are not noticing what we are saying that the other things are ugly at the same time. One last verse that I thought was interesting was verse eleven translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane
For example, one line, “Soon our pilgrimage will cease; Soon our happy hearts will quiver, with the melody of peace,” which is saying that one day we will die, and you can’t stop that. “Lay we every burden down; Grace our spirits will deliver, and provide a robe and a crown,” also reveals that you should appreciate what we’ve had, and what was given to us. This song is telling you, in every line, that you can’t live forever, but appreciate what you have, while you
Stanza three again shows doubtfulness about the mother’s love. We see how the mother locks her child in because she fears the modern world. She sees the world as dangers and especially fears men. Her fear of men is emphasized by the italics used. In the final line of the stanza, the mother puts her son on a plastic pot. This is somewhat symbolic of the consumeristic society i.e. manufactured and cheap.
“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they are part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They are not only the ending but the beginning as well” (Hoff 137). In Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff explains the fundamentals of Taoism through the cute characters of Winnie the Pooh. Each character’s action helps explains how Taoism works and affects our everyday lives.
The Art of War is a treatise written in Ancient China that discusses the most and least effective military strategies for successful warfare according to Sun Tzu, a military general whose existence is still debated to this day. While not every military commander in the history of warfare has read it, the strategies provided can be used as a way to assess said commanders and the effectiveness of their campaigns. In Sun Tzu 's own words, “The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat:--let such a one be dismissed!”1 This paper will discuss various iconic battles throughout history and how closely the leading commanders of each army followed the advice of Sun Tzu. Despite the fact that Sun Tzu lived hundreds of years before many of these battles took place, the
The next major influence on the Taoist belief was Chang Tzu. To him, Tzu’s writings defined the truth of life. He went on to write f...
... all equal forms, and from equal forms to equal practices, from equal practices to equal notions, until from equal notions he realizes the notion of absolute beauty, and finally knows what the essence of beauty is. Diotima explains that this is the life for which a man should live in the view of absolute beauty; a beauty that if you once touched you would not care of gold, clothing, and attractive boys, who’s presence entrances you; and you many a one would be satisfied to live seeing them and talking about them with out food or water, if that were possible, you only want to look to be closer to them and to stare at them. But what if man had eyes to see the true divine beauty, pure and undisrupted, not clogged with the pollutions of human life. To that place looking, and having ability to communicate with true beauty divine and simple? Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be able to bring forward, not images of beauty, but realities for he has hold not of an image but of a reality, and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Would that be a non-honorable life?"
...d stanza begins with, “One shade the more, one ray the less” (Byron pp. 358). This demonstrates that the woman is not solely good or positive. Even with a heart of innocence the contradiction of being born with different shades and gray areas leaves the reader to think that the beauty is not entirely good. Her beauty might make her fragile and innocent. One thing that Byron ends with is referencing the separation of the mind and heart in the last two lines. This separation lets the reader truly analyze the fact that feelings and thoughts can be two separate realities. Feelings and thought inside a person can be a mixture of good and evil. This can influence an individual’s actions looking at each especially through separation. Byron continues to leave the reader with these two lines maybe inferring that innocence is what we should finally revolve our lives around.
The woman also talks about becoming a mother and being one. Women are responsible for carrying children and bringing them into this world. Without them the world could not go on. This woman says “the tears from my birth pains / created the Nile (13-5).” That’s a lot of tears for anyone to cry to...
The purpose of Saenz using metaphors in this poem is to allow the reader to understand the spiritual thoughts of the speaker. Meaning it is used to show that the speaker has a yearning for god. For example it says, “You are thirst and thirst is all I know” (Saenz, 691). It is easy to think that the speaker is referring to his biological thirst for water. However, what is actually being expressed is the speaker’s “thirst” for a connection with god. Saenz’s word choice in his metaphors is a satisfying technique used by many poets in today’s literary world. It seems as if Saenz chooses words that can be portrayed and have two different meanings thus it requires readers to dig deeper into the underlying message. In the poem it says, “I was born for you, above, below, by you, by you surrounded” (lines 9-10, 691). The word choice of that metaphor is showing that the speaker is speaking to god and is showing a physical side and his desire for god in his life. Without Saenz using metaphors, it would not be easy for readers to relate and understand as to what his true meaning of the poem
He describes beauty as delicate and rare, unable to be established. He focuses on the lightheartedness of young girls, how they are caught up in beauty, and he warns them to be conscientious of the fact that their beauty will fade and that they cannot put all their hope on their beauty. At the same time, he encourages them to "practice" their beauty until it is gone, and he promises to celebrate that beauty as best he can, with all its value and frailty.
... the child and other mothers in the refugee camp. It shows the love that the mother has for her almost dying child and it also implies that she is not willing to let the child lose his innocence by being taken away by death.
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like” (Lau Tzu). Born into a life of noodles and relaxation Po, a chubby panda, always wanted to be a Kung Fu master. Out of nowhere an opportunity arises to have his dream become reality. Po, like any normal panda snatches up this once in a lifetime opportunity and runs with it. But when the going gets tough, he doesn’t know if this is the life he was meant to live. While the film was meant for enjoyment, DreamWorks has incorporated clear examples of the three major Chinese Schools of Thought: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
She writes in her poem “Remember”, “Remember that you are all people and all people are you”. This line emphasizes how much she believes each person is individually so important to the world, and brings so much to the table. She writes in “Metamorphosis” how each student in her school had a different talent that made them each unique and valuable, and she expresses this value again in “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” (Harjo 681-682). In this poem, the woman in the poem is not expressed only as
This description is not of lustrous beauty, but of the true love he felt for her. This statement and
The poem ¡¥Eve to Her Daughters¡¦ tells of original sin and gives advice to the women (her daughters) of today from Eve regarding men. The first stanza describes the consequences of the fall but Eve¡¦s acceptance of it.