By Burton Watson
Only through inhabiting Dao (the means of Nature) and living in its cohesion can humankind in achieving precise happiness and freedom, in either existence and dying. this is often Daoist philosophy's valuable guiding principle, espoused by way of the individual -- or team of individuals -- often called Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.E.) in a textual content via a similar identify. To be unfastened, contributors needs to discard inflexible differences among stable and undesirable, correct and unsuitable, and stick with a plan of action now not influenced through achieve or striving. whilst one ceases to pass judgement on occasions pretty much as good or undesirable, man-made ache disappears and ordinary anguish is embraced as a part of life.
Zhuangzi elucidates this mystical philosophy via humor, parable, and anecdote, deploying non sequitur or even nonsense to light up a fact past the bounds of standard good judgment. Boldly inventive and inventively worded, the Zhuangzi floats freed from its old interval and society, addressing the religious nourishment of everyone throughout time. essentially the most justly celebrated texts of the chinese language culture, the Zhuangzi is learn by way of hundreds of thousands of English-language students every year, but purely within the Wade-Giles romanization. Burton Watson's pinyin romanization brings the textual content based on how chinese language students, and progressively more different students, learn it.
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