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庄子说/Zhuāngzĭ speaks

Posted on Mar 9th, 2007 by Erick : Contemplative Dao Follower Erick
%u5E84%u5B50%u8BF4/ Zhuangzi Speaks

 

Zhuāngzĭ 's first name was Zhou. He was Song citizen in the Warring States Period. That was an age of war----the strong bullying the weak, minority people. The misery of the external world was unlimited. So Zhuāngzĭ wondered----what did it like outside this world? He turned his attention from the external world to the infinite time and space. In his opinion, instead of mirroring oneself from others, man must be aware of his own existence. Don't judge the present and the future through the past. Don't think it's worthy of doing something when it's actually meaningless. Don't draw finiteness out of infiniteness. Don't see life from death. Only by doing so can you get free. The philosophy of Zhuāngzĭf  is the philosophy of freedom. Only when one puts his life in the infinite time and space can he understands himself. To Zhuāngzĭ  living in this world was not what he wanted. What he pursued was the disorderness of life.


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火狐 Li : eccentric eremite
5 months later
火狐 Li said

I love this series. But I usually spend inordinate amounts of time on reading the subtitles.
No subtitles here ! ^^

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