Zhuang Tzu

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

The Cosmos and I live on forever. All things and I are united as one. - Chuang Tzu

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature. - Chuang Tzu

He who wants to have right without wrong, Order without disorder, Does not understand the principles of heaven and earth. He does not know how things hang together. - Chuang Tzu

Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation. - Chuang Tzu

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things. - Chuang Tzu

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light. - Chuang Tzu

The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet... Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things. - Chuang Tzu

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