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Zhuangzi The Complete Writings (English Edition)

Zhuangzi

Brook Ziporyn's carefully crafted, richly annotated translation of the complete writings of Zhuangzi—including a lucid Introduction, a Glossary of Essential Terms, and a Bibliography—provides readers with an engaging and provocative deep dive into this magical work.

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Philosophize This!

This book, written during the Warring States period, focuses on how to be a happy individual by following the Tao and practicing wu-wei; it is written in a humorous style, using stories, poems, and paradoxes, making interpretation difficult.

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Learn what one can and stop searching on what one cannot is the best way

— Episode: Episode #007 ... Daoism

Episode: Episode #007 ... Daoism

This book, written during the Warring States period, focuses on how to be a happy individual by following the Tao and practicing wu-wei; it is written in a humorous style, using stories, poems, and paradoxes, making interpretation difficult.

"

Learn what one can and stop searching on what one cannot is the best way

My life is limited, but knowledge is unlimited. If I pursue unlimited knowledge with my own limited life, the result must be dangerous. If one has realized this, but still does so, the result must be even more dangerous

And that is false, from another point of view. Are there really it and other? Or really no it and other? Where neither it nor other finds its opposite is called the axis of the way. When once the axis is found at the center of the circle, there is no limit to responding with either. On the one hand, no limit to what is it. On the other, no limit to what is not.

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