Zhuangzi: Ẹnoyment Of Life And In An Untroubled State giá ưu đãi

The pre Qin Confucianism and Buddha China philosophy, three thinking good reading so far is still full of wisdom, giving people the inspiration. The essence of these Chinese culture is also attractive to many foreigners.
English version of “Chinese wisdom” series for foreign readers, the exploration of Confucius, and grandson, Lao Tzu Mencius, Chuang-tzu and other cultural sages legendary life with the perspective of modern people; with vivid stories and line drawing techniques, interpretation of their wisdom and thoughts; through comparing the performance of the Chinese and foreign history and culture, Chinese cultural heritage and the mutual influence Chinese between traditional culture and Western culture.

The preQin Confucian philosophy and Taoism, are full of wisdom, giving modern time people profound inspiration and enlightment. They represent the essence of the Chinese culture.

The Wisdom of China is a series for foreign readers. They tell of the lives and wisdom of ancient sages including Confucius, Lao Tzu, Sun Zi, Menciu and Chuang-tzu. From these readers are expected to the cultural wisdom of the Chinese.

As the books are treated with living stories, readers will feel close to the time sages and find it easy to understand their philosophies. A survey among the potential readers show these books are easy to understand and the best channel to understand a cultural China.

The series books include CONFUCIUS: A Philosopher for the Ages, LAO TZU: The Eternal Tao Te Ching， MENCIUS: A Benevolent Saint for the Ages， SUN TZU: The Ultimate Master of War， ZHUANGZI: Enjoyment of Life in an Untroubled State. For the compilation of these books, the authors went to hometowns of these sages and hit numerous books in library. Many of their contents are available to readers for the first time.

If Lao Tzu is the founder and ultimate source of Taoism, Zhuangzi is a key thinker who carried forward a local philosophy of religion, and formed a unique and powerful system of thought, which retains its considerable power today in the modern world.

CONTENTS

Preface

Zhuangzi’s Birth and Death

‘Tao Te Ching’ and ‘Nan Hua Jing’

Cross-Cultural Echoes: Zhuangzi and Spinoza

Founder of Chinese Life Philosophy

The Separation of Taoism and Confucianism

Hun Dun: Highest Realm of Idealism

‘Zhuangzi’: A Critical Book

The Oriental Great Master’s Keen Insight into Life

Quotations from Zhuangzi

Cross-Cultural Echoes: Zhuangzi and Spinoza

In the 1650s, a Jew in a remote village south of Amsterdam, began to write his most important book Ethics. Some years before, he had been excluded from the local Jewish synagogue, and was expelled from the Jewish quarter. He had been forced into a life of seclusion.

This person was Spinoza, the famous Dutch philosopher. Spinoza was born into a rich family, but from the start was somewhat of a black sheep unlike his peers. How did he make a living after leaving home? In the end, he found a job grinding optical lenses. He could never imagine that a Chinese philosopher who lived more than 2,000 years a go had had a very similar experience. The Chinese philosopher had chosen an even lower and more inconspicuous profession – that of making straw sandals!

This philosopher was Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi lived in much greater poverty than Spinoza, and he often suffered from hunger. Especially after he gave up his post as Qiyuanli, he often had literally nothing to eat.

One time when he had run out of grain, a frustrated Zhuangzi thought of Jianhehou, the local official in charge of water conservancy. It is said that Zhuangzi had had a lot of contact with Jianhehou during the period when he served as Qiyuanli.

Jianhehou was relatively well off. Therefore, Zhuangzi hoped to ask for some emergency food. Zhuangzi dressed in rags and walked to the front gate of Jianhehou’s mansion. Jianhehou said: “No problem! I can lend you 300 taels of gold when my salary is paid in the autumn.”

Realizing Jianhehou was unwilling to give him any food, Zhuangzi was very angry because his family faced starvation. He said: “Jianhehou, you liked listening to my fables so much in the past. Now, I’ll tell you another story.”

Preface

In the Christian Bible, angels with wings on their shoulders act as God’s assistants; the Chinese often picture such romantic imagery as a kind of butterfly, a kind of beautiful insect.

One day more than 2,300 years ago, a young man named Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly. In the dream, he travelled in a leisurely manner and in the end confused his own identity with that of the butterfly, so much so that when he woke he thought he was still the butterfly. “Zhuang Zhou Dreaming of a Butterfly” is the earliest story involving humans and butterflies in China.

Perhaps it was this dream that activated a new philosophical direction – a transcendence of the secular world which added invisible wings to imagination, so as to make it “fly” higher and wider. Since that time, another high point was reached in the history of Chinese philosophy and thought.

That high point was the life and work of Zhuangzi, a giant of Taoism who followed Lao Tzu. Just as Confucianism is inseparable from the doctrines of Confucius and Mencius, so too Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi embody the very essence of Taoism in China. If Lao Tzu is the founder and ultimate source of Taoism, Zhuangzi is a key thinker who carried forward a local philosophy of religion, and formed a unique and powerful system of thought, which retains its considerable power today in the modern world.