« Lorsque le monde est ordonné,
le sage s’accomplit.
Lorsque le monde est désordonné,
le sage survit. »
– Tchouang-tseu, L’Homme au Monde
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於事無與親，彫琢復朴，塊然獨以其形立
"...remaining remote from all endeavors and letting all the chiseled carvings of his character return to an unhewn blockishness. Solitary like a clump of soil, he stood his physical form up on the earth..."
#zhuangzi (Ziporyn trans.)
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[cont.] He returned to his home and did not emerge for three years, cooking for his wite, feeding the pigs as if he were serving guests, remaining remote from all endeavors and letting all the chiseled carvings of his character return to an unhewn blockishness. Solitary like a clump of soil, he stood his physical form up on the earth, a mass of chaos and confusion. And that is how he remained to the end of his days.”
#Zhuangzi ch 7, Ziporyn trans.
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是殆見吾衡氣機也。鯢桓之審為淵，止水之審為淵，流水之審為淵。淵有九名，此處三焉
“He must have seen in me the incipient pulsion that could go on to balance all vital energies. The frothing of a salamander'st swirl is the reservoir. The frothing of still water is the reservoir. The frothing of flowing water is the reservoir. The reservoir has nine names, nine aspects, and I have shown him three of them.”
#Zhuangzi chapter 7, Ziporyn trans.
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The Voice Behind the Shield: When the Adversary Carries a Truth
What if the villain's crime and the villain's argument are not the same thing? From Kumbakarna's doomed loyalty to Iblis's refusal, Ravana's devotion, Zhuangzi's honest thief, Prometheus's fire, Devadatta's schism, and the Grand Inquisitor's bread, this essay asks whether truth can survive an untrue mouth — and finds, in Javanese tepa slira, a way to hold both.https://legawa.com/2026/07/08/the-voice-behind-the-shield-when-the-adversary-carries-a-truth/
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New art exhibit
Attunement: Contemporary Politics between Mindscape and Soundscape
curated by Hsu Fang-Tze#Heidegger’s ethical orientation to a shared world is particularly pertinent when juxtaposed with #Zhuangzi's concept of "perfect music," which describes a way to tune oneself in the world of impermanence and harmonises all forms of life.
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The Threshing Floor: On What We Do With What the Mind Brings Us
Di desa, terdapat seorang wanita bernama Mbah Sri yang menampi padi dengan percaya pada angin untuk memisahkan biji dan kulit. Ia mengajarkan bahwa pikiran negatif tidak harus menjadi penilaian tentang diri kita. Menghadapi pikiran, penting untuk menyadari bahwa kita dapat memilih reaksi, tidak terjebak dalam keyakinan yang keliru.https://legawa.com/2026/07/01/the-threshing-floor-on-what-we-do-with-what-the-mind-brings-us/
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆: 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝑺𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆: 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒁𝒉𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒛𝒊
Can Stoicism answer our dilemma?
Compare Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life with the Zhuangzi in this reflection on Stoicism vs. Daoism. Learn how Cincinnatus’s Roman Plow creates a utilitarian trap. Oh, and how The Expendables does, too.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/roman-plow-sovereign-tree-seneca-zhuangzi/#podcast #literature #books #seneca #zhuangzi #daoism #taoism #stoicism #cincinnatus #cicero
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Worauf wir zeigen können, ist begrenzt, es lässt sich betrachten wie Brennholz — das Feuer glimmt weiter, wir wissen nicht, wann es aufhört.
— #Zhuangzi (ca. 365-290 vdZ.), »Das Buch der daoistischen Weisheit« (»Das wahre Buch vom südlichen Blütenland«), 3:6; Deutsch von Viktor Kalinke, @reclamverlag. -
My dad just published a book!
📕 Zhuangzi Notes and Reflections (2026) https://works.hcommons.org/records/89045-bcp64
“What I have written here is an English-language commentary on the classic Chinese Daoist text, the Zhuangzi. The book is named after the late fourth-century BCE philosopher Zhuang Zhou. I have posted it on an open access platform called Knowledge Commons. The link is to a free download”
#Daoist #Daoism #Taoism #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseLiterature #Zhuangzi #ZhuangZhou #philosophy #KnowledgeCommons #FreeBook #eBook #CreativeCommons
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Today's new #HoPWaG episode: an interview with Hans-Georg Moeller on humor and amoral ethics in a Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi - and its relation to Confucianism and Legalism. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-moe... #philsky #philosophy #zhuangzi #daoism #podcast
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It's #HoPWaG time again! Today we look at the theme of "wandering" in the Zhuangzi, comparing this to Thomas Nagel's idea of "philosophical absurdity." www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-wan... #philsky #philosophy #podcasts #daoism #zhuangzi
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www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-death Time for a new #HoPWaG episode! Today we tackle the many passages in the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi, that deal with death - including the famous "dreaming you are a butterfly" passage. #daoism #zhuangzi #philsky #philosophy #podcasts
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Finished reading this on the train today, and it's a fun and interesting book. I have a soft spot for Zhuangzi's happy fish, and so this was up my street. It's also open access, putting the "free" into "free and easy wandering" (逍遙遊)
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111568171/html
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Today on #HoPWaG, we look at the variety of presentations (and names) of Confucius in the "Zhuangzi." What do these portrayal's tell us about Daoist attitudes towards Confucianism? www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-con... #podcast #philosophy #philsky #confucisus #daoism #zhuangzi
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Coming up on Sunday on #HoPWaG, we have a look at the various mentions of Confucius/Kongzi in the Zhuangzi. Did Daoists think this great sage was all that great? #podcast #philosophy #daoism #zhuangzi
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Coming up on Sunday on #HoPWaG, we have a look at the various mentions of Confucius/Kongzi in the Zhuangzi. Did Daoists this this great sage was all that great? #podcast #philosophy #daoism #zhuangzi
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@futurebird @Anke @va2lam @bucknam
So lovely.
Sewing is an alien art for me, I envy you. I won't start now, but I see this as a wonderful Taoist case study!
Let the material decide how it wants to be treated. The knot is my external will, clumsily imposed on the thread; the friction loop is the inner nature of the thread, gracefully doing what it does, skillfully aligned with my needs.
I love the drawing too!
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古之真人，不知說生，不知惡死；其出不訢，其入不距；翛然而往，翛然而來而已矣。不忘其所始，不求其所終；受而喜之，忘而復之。是之謂不以心捐道，不以人助天。是之謂真人。若然者，其心志，其容寂，其顙頯，淒然似秋，煖然似春，喜怒通四時
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Nicht handeln - hinter dem 13. Türchen im philosophischen Adventskalender von und mit Gert @scobel .
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Der philosophische Adventskalender
Das 7. Türchen: Zhuangzivon @scobel
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mZd-eo7Acjc
#philosophieadventskalender #illustration #animation #philosohie #zhuangzi
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New #HoPWaG for you today: The Zhuangzi's critique of dogmatism in argument and politics, which it calls "shi-fei" thinking. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-shi... #philsky #philosophy #podcast #daoism #zhuangzi
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Vollkommenheit lauert hinter dem siebten Türchen beim philosophischen Adventskalender mit Gert @scobel
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New open access book on Chinese philosophy by Mike Beaney, focusing on the wonderful "happy fish" passage from the Zhuangzi! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #daoism #zhuangzi #philosophy #openaccess
The Joy of Chinese Philosophy -
TAO: The Full Return To Nature “Ancient Chinese wisdom of Taoism that can be practically applied in your own life” Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Cory Endrulat Rating: 4.8/5 (7 Reviews) #Taoism #Philosophy #Spirituality #Discovery #Laozi #Zhuangzi #CarlJung #CSLewis #Books #Mindfulness #Nature #BookSky
TAO: The Full Return To Nature -
"Una volta, Zhuangzi sognò che era una farfalla svolazzante e soddisfatta della sua sorte e ignara di essere Zhuangzi. Bruscamente si risvegliò e si accorse con stupore di essere Zhuangzi. Non seppe più allora se era Zhuangzi che sognava di essere una farfalla o una farfalla che sognava di essere Zhuangzi“ #Zhuangzi
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The old man put down his pipe and spoke.
Life is short, he said, it passes by one day at a time, without fanfare, and then suddenly we realise it's all gone. I wish I could meet my younger self and beat some sense into the careless young man I then was.
What would you say to him?
Get enough sleep. Eat well. Always have some chicken stock in the fridge. That sort of thing.
He picked up his pipe and took a few gentle puffs.
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I think that’s the trick, at least.
One box of books at a time.
One toot at a time.
Who am I to question?The Way unfolds by walking.
#Zhuangzi #Taoism #DailyTao #MovingDay #Mindfulness #WritingLife
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There’s logic to it.
But it feels like magic.Trick? Don’t cling to any one angle.
Don’t freeze one image and call it whole.Don’t get stuck on one face of the mirror.
#Zhuangzi #Taoism #DailyTao #MirrorLogic #Philosophy #WritingLife #GeorgiaBulldogs
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旁日月，挾宇宙，為其脗合，置其滑涽，以隸相尊。眾人役役，聖人愚芚，參萬歲而一成純。萬物盡然，而以是相蘊
"The sage leans on the sun and moon, tucks the universe under his arm, merges himself with things, leaves the confusion and muddle as it is, and looks on slaves as exalted. Ordinary men strain and struggle; the sage is stupid and blockish. He takes part in ten thousand ages and achieves simplicity in oneness. For him, all the ten thousand things are what they are, and thus they enfold each other."
#Zhuangzi chapter 2, Watson trans.
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Tzu-yu said, "By the piping of earth, then, you mean simply [the sound of] these hollows, and by the piping of man [the sound of] flutes and whistles. But may I ask about the piping of Heaven?"
Tzu-ch'i said, "Blowing on the ten thousand things in a different way, so that each can be itself - all take what they want for themselves, but who does the sounding?"
#Zhuangzi chapter 2, Watson trans.
daoist #dyads
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3/ Which of these four 'knows' what is rightly alluring? From where I see it, all the sproutings of humankindness and responsible conduct and all the trails of right and wrong are hopelessly tangled and confused. How could I know how to distinguish and demonstrate any conclusions about them?”
#Zhuangzi (Ziporyn translation)
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3/ So in all our travels we can never really know where we are going, in all our dwellings we can never really know what is maintaining us, in all our eating we can never really know what we are tasting. This is all the bright and vigorous energy of heaven and earth—how could it be obtained and possessed?"
#Zhuangzi (Ziporyn translation)
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The Course cannot be learned, so hearing about it is no match for plugging up your ears. This is called the Great Attainment.
#Zhuangzi (Ziporyn translation)
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tranquil and tumultuous thoughts, or some observations mixed with a Zhuangzian rabbit hole:
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"Free of past and present, he could enter the unborn and undying, what kills all life without death, begins all life without beginning. It is something that sends all things off and welcomes all things in, destroys all and completes all. Its name is Tumultuous Tranquility. This Tranquil Turmoil! It reaches its completions, comes to takes its shapes, only through its turmoil.”
