Comments on: That’s What’s Inside

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 06:04:53 +0000

Dammit – my “You will get new clothes” has been beaten!

I accept defeat with grace.

Heading to Amherst Chinese Food right now. Actually I think that really is the name of teh restaurant.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:18:21 +0000

Tsze-chang asked what constituted intelligence. The Master said, “He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. Yea, he with whom neither soaking slander, nor startling statements, are successful, may be called farseeing.”

Tsze-kung asked about government. The Master said, “The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.”

Tsze-citrus asked about orange juice. The Master said, “When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out — because that’s what’s inside.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:02:29 +0000

That’s a fortune that could have come straight from the Analects.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:15:03 +0000

I like the idea of a recipe for making orange juice.

Ingredients
1 orange

Preparation

Slice and squeeze the orange.

Serve immediately.

By: Rachel519

Rachel519 — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:06:56 +0000

After trying to find some deeper meaning, the best I could come up with is that it means that people are who they are, and no amount of pressure and prodding and “squeezing” will yield you anything fundamentally different from what their personality and character suggests.

Or it could just be a recipe for making orange juice.