Category Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi says: “Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.”

Zhuangzi says: “The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He…

Zhuangzi says: “Everything has what is innate, everything has what is necessary.”

Zhuangzi says: “Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.”

Zhuangzi says: “A path is made by walking on it.”

Zhuangzi says: “The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind – that is the reason he is still.”

Zhuangzi says: “The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist…

Zhuangzi says: “Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.”

Zhuangzi says: “It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has duration yet no beginning or end. Something emerges, though through no aperture – this…

Zhuangzi says: “Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so…