{"id":483,"date":"2006-02-14T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=483"},"modified":"2006-02-14T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T09:47:38","slug":"the-joy-of-fishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/02\/14\/the-joy-of-fishes\/","title":{"rendered":"the joy of fishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nChuang Tzu and Hui Tzu<br \/>\nWere crossing Hao river<br \/>\nBy the dam.<\/p>\n<p>Chuang said:<br \/>\n&#8220;See how free<br \/>\nThe fishes leap and dart:<br \/>\nThat is their happiness,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hui replied:<br \/>\n&#8220;Since you are not a fish<br \/>\nHow do you know<br \/>\nWhat makes fishes happy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chuang said:<br \/>\n&#8220;Since you are not I<br \/>\nHow can you possibly know<br \/>\nThat I do not know<br \/>\nWhat makes fishes happy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hui argued:<br \/>\n&#8220;If I, not being you,<br \/>\nCannot know what you know<br \/>\nIt follows that you<br \/>\nNot being a fish<br \/>\nCannot know what they know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chuang said:<br \/>\n&#8220;Wait a minute!<br \/>\nLet us get back<br \/>\nTo the orginal question.<br \/>\nWhat you asked me was<br \/>\n&#8216;How do you know<br \/>\nWhat makes fishes happy?&#8217;<br \/>\nFrom the terms of your question<br \/>\nYou evidently know I know<br \/>\nWhat makes fishes happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know the joy of fishes<br \/>\nIn the river<br \/>\nThrough my own joy, as I go walking<br \/>\nAlong the same river.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Chuang Tzu, translated by Thomas Merton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuang Tzu and Hui Tzu Were crossing Hao river By the dam. Chuang said: &#8220;See how free The fishes leap and dart: That is their happiness,&#8221; Hui replied: &#8220;Since you are not a fish How do you know What makes fishes happy?&#8221; Chuang said: &#8220;Since you are not I How can you possibly know That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-7N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}