A wonderful tribute to Chuang Tzu here! Deeply relevant to help us reflect on what it means to live. It's not just about the external skill acquisition, but a way of living. Not just about compounding money/ wealth in the physical sense but a lived presence. Are status, titles, and winning truly the end goals that we want? Or perhaps we need to reframe our relationship to time, as time is not as infinite as we think!
A couple of quotes from your post that resonated:
-The Tao is not the ultimate authority. It is to be grasped, followed, and forgotten. For there is no distinction between “I” and the external world.
-Taoism and Ch’an Buddhism/Zen are not a dogma, a religion, or even an ideology. They are simply something to be lived, tasted, felt, and experienced.
-In essence, the early thinkers all shared the conviction that cultural tradition was more important than temporary political and worldly successes.
A wonderful tribute to Chuang Tzu here! Deeply relevant to help us reflect on what it means to live. It's not just about the external skill acquisition, but a way of living. Not just about compounding money/ wealth in the physical sense but a lived presence. Are status, titles, and winning truly the end goals that we want? Or perhaps we need to reframe our relationship to time, as time is not as infinite as we think!
A couple of quotes from your post that resonated:
-The Tao is not the ultimate authority. It is to be grasped, followed, and forgotten. For there is no distinction between “I” and the external world.
-Taoism and Ch’an Buddhism/Zen are not a dogma, a religion, or even an ideology. They are simply something to be lived, tasted, felt, and experienced.
-In essence, the early thinkers all shared the conviction that cultural tradition was more important than temporary political and worldly successes.
This made me think of Chuang Tzu's butterfly dream. How awake are we? https://taoismreimagined.substack.com/p/illusion-dreams-and-awakening?utm_source=publication-search