何事も，生半可に優れている者はその生半可な優秀さを誇ろうとする。それは評価されたい気持ちの裏返しである。だが本当に極めた者はまるで全くの凡人のように，自らその優秀さを誇ることはないし，端から見ても優秀であるとすぐには分からない。そのように一見，凡人と同様に何もない状態でありながら，しかし凡人と達人の違いは，何かがあれば即座に的確に対応できるところである。さらに言えば，何もせずとも災禍の方が避ける，つまり，何もせずとも難事が治まる，そもそも難事さえ起こらないのが究極とも言える。案山子に関する沢庵の話は，そのようにも解釈できる。荘子で言うところの「木鶏」に等しい。最強の闘鶏は，何にも惑わされず一切動じない木鶏のごとく泰然としている。「木鶏子夜に鳴く」という禅語がある。木鶏のごとき達人は，真夜中（子の刻）に密かに努力を重ねるものである。努力や優秀さは人に知られなくてもよい。それが木鶏への道，案山子への道である。
In everything, people who are imperfectly superior to others would often try to show others their imperfect superiority. It is only because they unconsciously want to be highly rated. But, genuine masters, like really ordinary persons, do not show their own superiority by themselves, and people do not recognize them to be superior at a glance. In this way, they seem to have nothing as if they were laypersons, though, the difference between laypersons and masters is that masters can cope with problems quickly and rightly. Further, each of the problems itself will evade masters who do nothing, that is, it will quiet down though they do nothing, and ultimately speaking, it never occurs around masters. What Takuan explained about a scarecrow can be interpreted as this way, too. It is similar to "mokkei (cock curved in wood)" in Chuang Tsu. The strongest fighting cock never be disturbed nor upset by anything but is calm like a wooden cock. There is a saying in Zen "Mokkei shiya ni naku (wooden cock crows at midnight)." Masters as a wooden cock step up efforts secretly at midnight. Do not become known by others for your efforts and superiority. That is the way to become a wooden cock or scarecrow.
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