who am i kidding

misremembered the name btw this has been bugging me for months. years possibly whatever

suspicions hidden inside me, while I put on a brave outward show; looking back, I count myself lucky not to have been drowned or burned. Shall I ever dare to go near water and fire again?'"
- The Book of Lieh-tzu, translates by A. C. Graham

acting on it. I forgot where my body was going, I forgot which things benefit and which things harm me. It is simply that I was single­ minded; that is the only reason why no thing stood in my way.
But now that I know for the first time that you were all making fun of me, I have worries and

Tzu-hua, who can save or ruin, enrich or impoverish, anyone he pleases. I believed you with all my heart, and that is why I came here, and the long journey seemed short to me.
When I arrived, I thought that everything you people said was true; I feared only that I might fall short in believing and

Permit us to ask you about this Way.'
'I do not possess the Way, said Shang-ch'iu K'ai. 'Even in my own heart I don't know how I did it. However, there is one thing I can try to tell you about. Not long ago I heard two of you, who were spending the night in my hut, praising the fame and power of

body was not scorched. Tzu-hua's band were convinced that he possessed the Way, and they all apologised to him together.
'We played tricks on you, not knowing that you possessed the Way; we humiliated you, not knowing that you were a Divine Man. How stupid, how deaf, how blind you must think us!