Laozi told Confucius to "give up your arrogant airs, many desires, contrived posturing and overweening ambition",7 and that Confucius came away calling Laozi a "dragon". (The Shi Ji biography of Confucius says while in Zhou to study the rites he happened to meet Laozi; it does not record...
The Daoist perspective on their relationship is described in Zhuangzi 莊子 (Master Zhuang Zhou), which states: "When Confucius was fifty‑one years old and still hadn't found the Way, he went south to Pei and met with Lao Dan 孔子行年五十有一而不聞道,乃南之沛見老聃." After meet‑ ...
The heng in Chapter 16 is equivalent to heng of ren er wuheng 人而無恆 (a man devoid of constancy) which Confucius quotes from the southerners (Lau 2000, p. 129). 4. Infinite Continuous Temporal Succession: The Eternity of the Transcendental Dao Based on the linguistic evidence shown thus...