至樂&Death

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莊子妻死，惠子弔之，莊子則方箕踞鼓盆而歌。

惠子曰：「與人居，長子、老、身死，不哭亦足矣，又鼓盆而歌，不亦甚乎？」

莊子曰：「不然。是其始死也，我獨何能無概然？察其始，而本無生。

非徙無生也，而本無形。非徙無形也，而本無氣。

雜乎芒芴之間，變而有氣，氣變而有形，形變而有生，

今又變而之死，是相與為春秋東夏四時行也。

人且偃然寢於巨室，而我噭噭然隨而哭之，自以為不通乎命，故止也。」

至樂

--莊子

 

 

When one must walk with Death, where is the time for life?

Freud advises us that all things without life existed previously to all things with life.

The end of all life is Death,

the all powerful queen who preceded us and will remain long after we are gone.

Did death mark us before we existed?

Will she remember us after we are gone?

In other words, did the nothingness that preceded us,

the same nothingness that will survive us,

only become a conscious entity in nature,

and not in its own nothingness

but rather as the result of our journey through life?

This I Believe

--Carlos Fuentes

 

 

I stumbled upon the two texts that are ages and worlds apart

yet so similar!