Or, like placing nowhere somewhere,—topography which even the Great Yü
The famous engineer of antiquity (B.C. 2205), who drained the empire of a vast body of water and arranged its subdivision into nine provinces.
would fail to understand; how much more I?
"Speech is not mere breath. It is differentiated by meaning. Take away that, and you cannot say whether it is speech or not. Can you even distinguish it from the chirping of young birds?
"But how can Tao be so obscured that we speak of it as true and false? And how can speech be so obscured that it admits the idea of contraries? How can Tao go away and yet not remain?
Being omnipresent.
How can speech exist and yet be impossible?
See p. [13].
"Tao is obscured by our want of grasp. Speech is obscured by the gloss of this world.
I.e. by the one-sided meanings attached to words and phrases.