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Ideas of Chuang Tzu, by Text

[Chinese, 369 - 286 BCE, Born at Meng, in China. A minor court official.]

350BCE

The Book of Chuang Tzu

Ch.1

p.3

7277

The perfect man has no self

Ch.2

p.9

7278

Words of wisdom are precise and clear

Ch.2

p.12

7279

If words can't be defined, they may just be the chirruping of chicks

Ch.2

p.15

7280

As all life is one, what need is there for words?

Ch.2

p.15

7281

Don't even start, let's just stay put

Ch.2

p.16

7282

Disagreement means you do not understand at all

Ch.2

p.16

7283

Great courage is not violent

Ch.2

p.19

7284

If you beat me in argument, does that mean you are right?

Ch.2

p.20

7285

Did Chuang Tzu dream he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dream he was Chuang Tzu?

Ch.6

p.52

7286

To see with true clarity, your self must be irrelevant

Ch.6

p.56

7288

Go with the flow, and be one with the void of Heaven

Ch.6

p.56

7287

Fish forget about each other in the pond and forget each other in the Tao

Ch.7

p.64

7289

Do not try to do things, or to master knowledge; just be empty