| Come, let me sing into your ear; Those dancing days are gone, All that silk and satin gear; Crouch upon a stone, Wrapping that foul body up In as foul a rag: I carry the sun in a golden cup. The moon in a silver bag .... - "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" poem by William Butler Yeats | "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" sung by Carla Bruni |
"fair" ~ "foul";
"soul" ~ "body";
"youthfulness" ~ "senility";
"physical" ~ "intellectual";
"growth" ~ "decay";
"heavenly mansion" ~ "foul sty"; .... ....
Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul
- "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop", 1933, William Butler Yeats
天下皆"Fair"の"Fair"たるを知る、斯れ"Foul"のみ。
故に有無相生じ、"Fair""Foul"相成し ....
「天下皆美の美たるを知る、斯れ悪のみ。皆善の善たるを知る、斯れ不善のみ。....
故に有無相生じ、難易相成し、長短相形し、高下相傾け、音声相和し、前後相随ふ。」
- 老子
「唯と阿と相去ること幾何ぞ。善と悪と相去ること何若。
人の畏るる所は畏れざるべからざるも、荒として其れ未だ央きざるかな。」
- 老子
Translation: Arthur Waley, 1934
Between "Wei" and "O"
What after all is the difference?
Can it be compared to the difference between good and bad?
The saying “what others avoid I too must avoid”
How false and superficial it is?
- Dao De Jing
Translation: Witter Bynner, 1944
Categorical this, categorical that,
What slightest use are they!
If one man leads, another must follow,
How silly that is and how false!
- Dao De Jing
「鳥がただ空中を飛ぶようなもので、
何かを取捨することもなく愛憎もない」
『景徳傳燈録』
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