e-the understanding has them too..."
             These images of mental blindness and narrowness are examples of what Chuang Tzu hopes to help us avoid. It is important that the reader be able to find the truth in Chuang Tzu's message and obtain the freedom of P'eng. He doesn't want us to be tied down to convention like the small bird and cicada.
             Chapter two begins with another transformation. Tzu-chi turns into someone other than who he was. In this chapter, Chuang Tzu makes us question our opinions and values as he takes us through a logical discourse on defining those opinions and values that we hold. Early in the chapter he states:
             Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid, little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
             Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there?
             He goes on to clarify this rhetorical question by saying
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