![]() He continues that Yen hears the piping of men, but not of the earth. Tzu-ch'i answers that he has "lost" himself, (referring to his personality-driven ego). ![]() ![]() His friend Yen Ch'eng Tzu-yu asks him a cryptic question about how he has made his ".body like a withered tree and the mind like dead ashes?" (The reader soon learns that this refers to detachment.) Yen points out that Tzu-ch'i is not the same person he was before. The first part of Section 2, Discussion On Making All Things Equal, begins with Tzu-ch'i of South Wall seated in apparent meditation. In this analogy, the Tao is the Great Equalizer. In this passage, Chuang Tzu communicates the structure of the differing levels, or spheres, of human experience and explains how the Tao functions and what its value is. My discussion centers on Section 2 of The Book of Chuang Tzu. ![]() Even in translation, the brilliance and compression of his language is evident. He was a non-conformist in his own time and conveyed his ideas of the Tao in energetically poetic prose. The Book of Chuang Tzu The Book of Chuang TzuĬhuang Tzu was a Chinese philosopher who lived during the 4th century B.C. ![]()
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