Before suspicious spouses were testing their loved ones' loyalty with catfishing fake profiles, there was Zhuang Zhou, a 4th-century Daoist philosopher who tested his wife's vows by faking his death and magically becoming his rival to lure her.| Scottish Field
Great day of training. It must have been 95F (35C) in the dojo, though.| The Budo Bum
From Burton Watson’s translation of The Complete Works of Zhuangzi (pg 286): When Zhuangzi was about to die, his disciples expressed a desire to give him a sumptuous burial. Zhuangzi said, “I will have heaven and earth for my coffin and coffin shell, the sun and moon for my pair of jade disks, the stars … Continue reading Pitiful, isn’t it!| Extracts
There are a few points to consider here: Zhuang Zhou is not a butterfly, dreaming is not awakening, and knowledge is not ignorance. Yet, these distinct situations interdepend and interchange to the point of where Zhuang Zhou is uncertain of where he is. The two contrasting moments correspond to the Confucian concept of li, ‘ritual’ […]| The Confucian Weekly Bulletin
