Tag Archives: Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu v

Posted on May 12, 2013 by sophyphreak

Picking up in Chuang Tzu right where we left off yesterday… There is nothing in the world bigger than the tip of an autumn hair, and Mount T’ai is little. No one has ever lived longer than a dead child, … Continue reading →

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Chuang Tzu iv: just to screw with you

Posted on May 11, 2013 by sophyphreak

For certain parts of this excerpt, Chuang Tzu must be being purposefully confusing. There is a beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be a beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be … Continue reading →

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Chuang Tzu iii: He will break your brain

Posted on April 22, 2013 by sophyphreak

I wanted to go forward today with some even more difficult Chuang Tzu than before: Whether you point to a little stalk or a great pillar, a leper or the beautiful Hsi-shih, things ribald and shady or things grotesque and … Continue reading →

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Chuang Tzu ii

Posted on April 19, 2013 by sophyphreak

Once a man receives this fixed bodily form, he holds on to it, waiting for the end. Sometimes clashing with things, sometimes bending before them, he runs his course like a galloping steed, and nothing can stop him. Is he not pathetic? Sweating and … Continue reading →

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Chuang Tzu

Posted on April 18, 2013 by sophyphreak

Chuang Tzu lived in ancient China more than 2000 years ago. He is one of the two founding authors of Taoism (Daoism), the other being Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu wrote a much shorter and less difficult book than did Chuang … Continue reading →

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