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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Outer Chapters -> Tian Zi-fang -> 4.1

孔子老聃Confucius went to see Lao Dan,
老聃and arrived just as he had completed the bathing of his head, and was letting his dishevelled hair get dry.
There he was, motionless, and as if there were not another man in the world.
孔子便 Confucius waited quietly;
and, when in a little time he was introduced, he said,
'Were my eyes dazed?
Is it really you?
Just now, your body, Sir, was like the stump of a rotten tree.
。」You looked as if you had no thought of anything, as if you had left the society of men, and were standing in the solitude (of yourself).'
老聃 Lao Dan replied,
。」 'I was enjoying myself in thinking about the commencement of things.'


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