Let’s be reasonable, no?
Some of the ancient Chinese have a way of not confronting life with the inanity of Reason.
Reason, they say, is the archenemy of living reasonably. It adds straightness where life offers only curves; hardness where life is soft and flexible. Reason seeks to correct, to comprehend, to contain that which, like water, can never be held in the hand, grasped by the brain, or understood without the heart. Life, if it has any reason at all, is to be met with a measure of disobedience, flexibility, humor, and sagacity-from-experience. This is a real response to the real world; the profoundest pleasures are there in an ever resilient joy in not knowing and, indeed, in not needing to know. For them, there are six directions –north, south, east, west, and, of course, up and down! These ancients do not confuse plain with stupid, value with money, words with deeds, knowledge with truth. This is what it means to be reasonable, yes?
~ “A definition of intelligence is complete attention, not negligence but diligence. What takes place when you are diligently, attentively acting? There is order, order in yourself, order in what you do, order around you – you put everything where it belongs. That is art, where everything, including thought, is in its right place.” J Krishnamurti
