Zhuang Tzu aka ZhuangZi

Zhuang Zhou, Honorifically often known as Zhuangzi was an influential Chinese Philospher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy, the ‘Hundred Schools of Thought’. He is credited with writing — in part or in whole — a work known by his name, the ‘Zhuangzi’, which is one of two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching.

‘Zhuangzi’, the book is distinguished by its brilliant and original style, with abundant use of satire, paradox, and seemingly nonsensical stories. Chuang-Tzu emphasizes the relativity of all ideas. He puts forward as the solution to the problems of the human condition, freedom in identification with the universal Tao, or principle of Nature."

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Here are some quotes by Chuang Tzu

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation. - Chuang Tzu

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. - Chuang Tzu

To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients. - Chuang Tzu

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature. - Chuang Tzu

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. - Chuang Tzu

The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement; the sage has no name. - Chuang Tzu  

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning! - Chuang Tzu

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