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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Outer Chapters -> Perfect Enjoyment -> 4.1

庄子When Zhuangzi went to Chu,
he saw an empty skull,
bleached indeed, but still retaining its shape.
Tapping it with his horse-switch,
he asked it, saying,
'Did you, Sir, in your greed of life, fail in the lessons of reason,
and come to this?
Or did you do so, in the service of a perishing state, by the punishment of the axe?
Or was it through your evil conduct, reflecting disgrace on your parents and on your wife and children?
Or was it through your hard endurances of cold and hunger?
?” Or was it that you had completed your term of life?'
Having given expression to these questions,
he took up the skull, and made a pillow of it when he went to sleep.


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