Do Nothing: Peace for Everyday Living: Reflections on Chuang by Siroj Sorajjakool,John Cobb

"Words,"writes Chuang Tzu, "are for catching rules; as soon as you have got stuck the assumption, you could disregard the words." In Do Nothing, writer Siroj Sorajjakool lends us a few of his insightful phrases to assist us all "catch" the provocative rules of 1 of China's most crucial literary and philosophical giants—one who emerged at a time whilst China had numerous such giants philosophizing on Tao or "the Way."

Though his pondering dates again to the fourth century, Chuang Tzu's Tao has profound implications for our smooth lives. He welcomes an lifestyles that's significantly faraway from identical to normalcy that society frequently initiatives, in which the person should always attempt for extra, constantly search larger productiveness, and continually try and larger him or herself and his or her position in existence. Chuang Tzu may posit that the definitions of normalcy, good fortune, and happiness are arbitrarily assigned and that our inflexible and unquestioning adherence to those so-called "norms" results in existential restlessness and unease. rather than striving, he could say, be nonetheless. rather than buying, include nothingness. rather than looking to comprehend the limitlessness of the universe in the course of your short and intensely constrained life, benefit from the ask yourself of it.

Siroj Sorajjakool means that once we can include nothingness, we endure a non secular transformation that liberates us to work out extra in actual fact and really locate ourselves. He bargains a truly own exploration of Chuang Tzu's Tao, first in its old and literary context, after which within the context of our twenty-first century life. What emerges is a releasing and hugely readable meditation at the many classes we will "catch" from Chuang Tzu on how we view our aspirations, our joys and sorrows, our successes and screw ups, and what it capability to be a beneficial person.