Zhuangzi
10:17 AM
---by TSAI CHIH CHUNG
- The name of our hero is Zhuang Zhou, and like all Chinese names, the surname comes first, followed by the given name. To show respect for his vast wisdom, we add the word zi to his surname, just like Kongzi(Confucius), Mengzi(Mencius), and Laozi. Zhuangzi lived during the fourth century B.C., a time known as the Warring States period in China. This was a period of disunity in which rival nations battled constantly for more land and greater power. As a result, it was also a time or widespread death and destruction. Zhuangzi saw this and was deeply saddened by it.
- as a way out, Zhuangzi shifted his line of sight from the earthly world to the limitlessness of time and space.
- Zhuangzi thought: People need to be aware of their own existence. You shouldn't always perceive yourself in comparison with others.Big,Small,Rich,Poor...
- Don't look at today in terms of the past and the future
- Don't see things in terms of worth and worthlessness.
- Don't draw a boundary around the boundless.
- Don't draw life from death. Only in this way can you attain limitless freedom.
- The philosophy of Zhuangzi is a philosophy of freedom. It is a philosophy which takes life and hurls it into the limitlessness of time and space in order to be experienced to the fullest.
- To Zhuangzi, the world was chained by a "lifeless order", so what he pursued instead was a "lively disorder."
