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Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings published by Columbia University Press
February 7, 2008
Zhuangzi has been labeled a "Taoist" since the 2nd century B.C., but what the hell does that mean? Sima Qian started this whole thing of calling Laozi and Zhuangzi "Taoists", like they shared the same world view and argued the same ideas. Wrong! Laozi and Zhuangzi really need to be taken as separate representations of different ways of thought, distinct not only from each other but from the wave of "Confucians" (another label courtesy of Sima Qian in the 2nd century BC) to come after Confucius himself.

Zhuangzi was a contemporary of Mencius. He probably lived in the state of Song, where the exiled Shang clans were allowed by their Zhou conquerers to quietly carry out their sacrifices to their ancestors under careful scrutiny. In a way, we might say a glimmer of Shang cultural values is coming through in Zhuangzi's writings, which are so characteristically different from the Zhou inspired Confucian thinkers.

Regardless, Zhuangzi doesn't like utility. He doesn't like language, but is a master of its use. He never offers solutions to problems, he only hints at them. He's a performer and a trickster, and so hard to figure out what the hell he's getting at.

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The overall vision (short version)
Instead of identifying with this and that thing, Chuang Tzu invites us to identify with our horizon-spanning field of consciousness. When we do this, instead of anxiously clinging to some things and shunning others, we experience being present with the panorama of whatever things are here-and-now spread out before us. Also, instead of anxiously striving to do this and do that, we experience being effortlessly buoyed by the energy that animates all things, including ourselves.
When we identify with awareness and relax into our embodied sense of energy, we experience the freedom of wandering, amiable and aloof.
Wandering—like a vagabond, a traveller.
Aloof—from worldly worries. At ease with others and our circumstances, even bad-tempered folk and unpleasant circumstances. Not dissociated, not disengaged, rather:
Amiable—playful. Good humoured. Fully and creatively engaged with others and our circumstances.
Chuang Tzu presents this vision in the opening chapter of his book: Wandering, amiable and aloof. Here’s the opening and closing stories:
Awaking to awareness, We happy cicadas, and Mounting the world as your chariot
The large gourd and The large tree
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The overall vision (longer version)
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