Chuang Tzu was on his deathbed, and his disciples were planning to give him a magnificent funeral. Chuang Tzu said:
“Heaven and Earth will be my inner and outer coffin, the sun and moon will be a pair of jade disks, the stars will be pearls, and all the darkness of things will be posthumous offerings.” Is there something missing for my funeral? What can we add to this?
“But we are afraid,” the students answered, “that you, teacher, will be pecked by crows and kites.”
Chuang Tzu said:
“On the ground I will go to the crows and kites, underground I will go to feed the ants.” Why do ants have such preference?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru