Great Way and Leisure: Re-examining Zhuangzi's Humanistic Sentiments: Re-examining Zhuangzi's Humanistic Sentiments

Author: Jian Jun
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: The enlightened ones do not need artificial refinement. The jade that returns to its original simplicity is a solitary thinker who stands aloof from the world, an independent and contemplative figure. It is a person of simple tastes, living in tranquility and poverty, dressed in coarse clothes and eating plain food! Zhuangzi's philosophy belongs to the category of "life philosophy" within the field of "humanities and social sciences." Zhuangzi is a master of shaping the mind, and his literary works are considered "truly great only after hardship." This book presents and explores the philosophical thoughts of Zhuangzi through his thirty-three essays.
Inner Chapters I. Free and Easy Wandering [Plain Language Original]
In the northern sea, there is a fish called Kun. This Kun is incredibly large, and no one knows how many miles it is. When it transforms into a bird, it becomes Peng. Peng is also very large, and its back alone is unknown to be several thousand miles long. When it spreads its wings to fly, the two wings resemble white clouds hanging from the edge of the sky. Such a large bird with such heavy wings is not easy to take off, so it must wait for a strong wind on the sea to catch the opportunity to fly to the Southern Deep. The Southern Deep is the farthest south, where it is said there is a place called Tianchi, and Peng goes there.