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LAOTZU

                                             September 23, 2001
                                             December  10, 2007
                                        Rev: June      17, 2009
                                        Rev: June      16, 2011


I really disliked Lao-Tzu when
I made an effort to read him as
I was a young teenager.                       I was around
                                              14, I think.
It seemed to me like he had copped
out on the effort to understand the           That was the "Tao te Ching", of
mysteries of the universe, and                course, packaged in an edition
instead had fallen back on                    with some Chuang-Tzu.
worshipping The Mystery.

    I called him a
    "frustrated philospher"...


                      (This really impressed one of
                      my junior high school teachers,
                      who I gather wasn't used to
                      encountering any kind of
                      critical thinking in the papers
                      written by my fellow inmates).


I don't know what I would think of
Lao-Tzu if I read him again...
now that I'm an older and more               You could argue that
frustrated philospher myself.                my 14 year-old self had
                                             just come up with the
                                             standard Western reaction
                                             to Eastern thought...

                                             Betrand Russell had
                                             a similiarly dismissive
                                             take on mysticism...

                                                 PSYCHSOPHY


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