Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things

Sunday, November 5, 2023

What Is It

Zhuangzi, the 4th-century BCE Chinese philosopher, was arguably the most important figure in Taoism. He believed that a person’s ideal relationship to the world was to "be one with ten thousand things." So how is someone supposed to achieve this ideal? What is at the core of Zhuangzi's conception of the good life? And how could contemporary western readers benefit from his way of thinking? Josh and Ray welcome back Paul Kjellberg from Whittier College, editor of Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in The Zhuangzi.

Transcript

Transcript

Josh Landy  
Could you be a butterfly dreaming you're a person?

Ray Briggs  
Is anything objectively good or bad?

Josh Landy  
What does Zhuangzi have to tell us about the way to live?

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BlairArnold

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 -- 3:54 AM

For Zhuangzi, to be “one with

For Zhuangzi, to be “one with the ten thousand things” is to dissolve the artificial boundaries we create—between self and other, right and wrong, success and failure—and instead align ourselves with the dead plate rhythms of the cosmos.

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