5:55 “The perfect man has no self, the holy man has no merit, the sage has no fame.” 9:44 Huizi and Zhuangzi, 1st dialogue 13:57 The piping of heaven 18:36 Questioning Distinctions 21:06 This and That 32:32 Wang Ni: “Owls and crows crave mice” 34:53 Reckless words to listen to recklessly 40:20 The Butterfly Dream 41:37 Butcher Ting 46:06 Confucius and Yan Hui, dialogue 55:16 Zigao, Duke of She and Confucius, dialogue 1:03:47 Carpenter Shi and the useless tree 1:09:23 The madman of Chu 1:10:42 Sign of virtue complete 1:18:49 Ai Taituo, The ugly man of Hue 1:23:48 If virtue is preeminent… 1:25:30 Huizi and Zhuangzi, 2nd dialogue 1:27:45 The true man of ancient times 1:33:50 Hiding the world within the world 1:37:00 The woman crookback 1:39:42 “What should I have to resent?” 1:51:56 “I am improving!” 1:53:15 Father? Mother? Heaven? Man? 1:56:35 How to rule the world 1:58:55 The shaman 2:03:58 The Death of Hundun
13:10 Section 2: Discussion on making all things equal 40:57 Section 3: The secret of caring for life 45:57 Section 4: In the world of men 1:10:34 Section 5: The sign of virtue complete 1:26:49 Section 6: The great and venerable teacher 1:54:28 Section 7: Fit for emperors and kings
I always keep this book close to me - which is funny because if I would ever truly master "my way" I wouldn't need it! This book brought me back into the light during some of the darkest tiimes in my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this so accessible for whenever I need to remind myself what really matters.
Thanks for this more complete version than the cute (but not too helpful) extracted vignettes we usually get. At about 1:01:00 Chuang Tzu gives detailed instructions on how to assertively counter someone who gob-smacks you with toxic shame.
"Chuang Tzu is a rare flowering, because to become nobody is the most difficult, almost impossible, most extraordinary thing in the world. Chuang Tzu says: To be ordinary is to be the sage. Nobody recognizes you, nobody feels that you are somebody extraordinary. Chuang Tzu says: You go in the crowd and you mix, but no one knows that a buddha has entered the crowd. No one comes to feel that somebody is different, because if someone feels it then there is bound to be anger and calamity. Whenever someone feels that you are somebody, his own anger, his own ego is hurt. He starts reacting, he starts attacking you. Chuang Tzu says that the real, the divine, the existential, is to be attained by losing yourself completely in it. Even the effort to attain it becomes a barrier - then you cannot lose yourself. Even the effort to lose yourself becomes a barrier. Chuang Tzu says: Even the distance of a hair is enough, and heaven and earth fall apart. Just the distance of a hair - not much at all, almost negligible - but it is enough to separate earth from heaven. When even that much difference is not there, one is enlightened. Chuang Tzu is very rare - in a way the most unique mystic in the whole history of man. His uniqueness is that he talks in absurdities. All his poems and stories are just absurd. And his reason to choose absurdity as his expression is very significant: the mind has to be silenced. With anything rational, it cannot stop; it goes on and on. Anything logical and the mind finds nourishment through it. It is only the absurd that suddenly shocks the mind - it is beyond mind’s grasp. His stories, his poems and his other statements are so absurd that either people simply left him, thinking that he is mad…. Those who were courageous enough to remain with him found that no other meditation is needed. Just listening to his absurd statements, the mind stops functioning. And that is the meaning of meditation. Meditation is not of the mind. Chuang Tzu is one of my love affairs, and when you talk about someone you love you are bound to use extremes, exaggerations, but to me they don’t sound like that. I could give the whole kingdom of the world to Chuang Tzu for any single parable that he wrote - and he wrote hundreds. Each is a SERMON ON THE MOUNTAIN, a SONG OF SOLOMON, a BHAGAVADGITA. Each parable represents so much, and so richly, that it is immeasurable."
Just want to say thank you for posting this! I've read several different translations of The Chuang Tzu but Burton Watson's is my favorite, and naturally I've listened to your narration many times. Excellent pace, excellent voice, excellent reading all around! Nicely done :D
I make videos translating some passages from Chuang Tzu character by character, maybe you would like to check them out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nT-nw-05nOQ.html
This make so much sense, I remember thinking this way when I was 7 or 8 years old, but suppressed it because it was unusual to think and to speak this way. My teachers from school will tell me that it's useless to think to much they wanted me to practice writing instead.
"One must first learn to listen before learning to speak. One must first learn to combine letters into words before learning to combine words into phrases. One must first learn to empty the mind before learning to fill it..." -RAB from the Island of Hawaii 🏝
If you are interested in Chuang Tz's philosophical thoughts, maybe you can check out my recent video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nT-nw-05nOQ.html
This is such a good recording. Wow. Your voice and reading is excellent. Thank you so much. I wish I could download it but don't know how at over 2 hours.
Barbara for the future and just in case you haven't found anything yourself, I use something called, '4k Video Downloader'. It is entirely free, although you can subscribe if you wish. You can download all RU-vid videos either as a video file, or, as in this case, an audio file (eg, mp3). You can also choose the quality that you want, within certain limits anyway. I also agree that this file is well worth downloading, and will do so myself. Enjoy its wisdom and beautiful narration. (We have some interesting thumbnail photos.)
are you kidding? this over the top american accent is just unbearable. I can't imagine any intonation more unsuitable for reading this kind of content (well, maybe an arrogant-french intonation. wouldn't be much worse though).
💢For Christ College Students💢 0:05 Free and Easy Wandering 13:06 Discussion on Making all Things Equal 40:59 The secret of caring for life 45:53 in the world of men 1:10:32 The sign of complete virtue 1:26:47 the great and venerable teacher 1:54:26 Fit for Emperors and Kings
A question since i dont know from who else to ask..... Isn't having or attending a monastery against daoism? Tao Te Ching seems to be putting less value on rituals and religions than following Tao itself. "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." What you teach at monastery cannot be the eternal Tao. Right?
I bought Thomas Merton's version and i don't like it very much. I always drift back to your recording of Chuang Tzu. You really did an amazing job. I really like your style of narration and the book itself is phenomenal. Thank you. As soon as I get some money I'm going to buy this recording because you frickin deserve it.
Thomas Merton didn't even understand Chinese. He merely intuited what he "felt" was the Chuang Tzu. He "Zennified" the book without really understanding it.
You are an awesome narrator! Thank you very very much for recording this! Would it be possible for you to record The Complete Works of Zhuangzi translated by Burton Watson? It has all of the Chuang Tzu. That would be incredible. I would be eternally grateful!
True some of the grinning satisfaction of the man is missing here, but what it retains is the mild clarity and effortless flow of a pure stream, unmuddied by the usual attempts to convey what is implicit.
The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao... I must say that after the te ching this book just sounds like a bunch of philosogibberish and anecdotes. I feel like I have to unlearn what I just heard, I have no use in trying to quantify the ineffable.
Read the Word of God to get the Truth 🫶🏽💗 the Holy Bible. Aligning the details of these theories with the who's, why's and when's. If you don't believe me... read it for yourself
DECLASSIFIED- crown chakra , this is EVERY hometown... I am just confirming to the Lenape (the Delaware) at least for now, that I am in a pure space, specifically money has no meaning (超越動物), hearts and the gratitude with which we hold and show for the gifts of life do. Everyone is coming from something sincere, not a mindless 'track' I see lights and lifeforms, foxes circling around me, but then they break down to the DNA of all things, simply letters, elements... Sometimes I am left oh so rearing for more, but this time, although feint the mystical love is rooted in her smile of and she says aw, ילמנכי וווםמ מ נםך:)///_+10 למחעכ רדהנ ווואאםאמש קאכטד ____________ אורבני םחיער I see the playgrounds emerging from holy books again! Without knowing religions, just Goddess, we are flowers sprouting with henge gardens of sparrow owls and angel garden rockledges. Fiery beings of loving hearts And wise eyes Cannot steal wood But return forests Elongated hair vibrating with zen haikus, as they wait on benches, they can't help but seem slightly middle eastern, in these sanctuaries good breath poured back to old aerith, earth! First touchback with the Planet.. I am relaxing, going back to my haven, and if any of you wish so strongly you may join me, whichever way you go you'll find it because divine letters reflect the need of winged thoughts, whether already written, or yet to be wrote. Each one is a root back to the earth, like chaos stars written by the divine one What I need is coming to me, as if out of a dream, with a bottomless bag, the beloved is everything, and the bad writing is breaking away like grease in foamy surf. The sea is the spirit that can wash away thoughts, all that is wasteful, the clouds above it as the beginning of new clear thoughts. The graffiti is gone when I wake up, like tree bark formed, but the last books are purer. בזכינג ויענ עיאכ רקהפהב המההת דני כרה יםכטטטט לחיה 00ooO____ ז כמטע הכגרדנ. \\\ They are just happy I am not attached to the sicknesses of modern culture, and that those around me are out and pulling out as well. Poetic Ecstasy is wholesome I am untouched, but so many are unable to hold these gifts like this, but the natives, they are used to these books without the overlay of time. Maybe that had a truer co-view Throat Chakra is a female guardian of the letters of ecstasy, this is the better way and the better rhythm. Other poets have cried because they haven't been able to achieve this. You've cried because you have. (名誉)A greatly beautiful ecstatic walks on fertile soil. Their lights are turning down, the sun is there, every letter eats it יהרקםח עדש ה םלימם םם העכדהר יךףזז םם Souls sit here, between rest and rest, only because it is these letters, they say, the good qualities in those bright ones they knew.. not to be reorganized by facism to what is safe for it, to have endless value without a scale to weigh them. So remember their qualities they would say, on big banners in Egypt... You have seen the wonders of my land, my body, you are endless in this way, because you saw the plants and you knew they could live free of those ideas, things have a spirit but the insincere people should not bend that, for this native Americans thanked עדטחחט הצג ינחדטח יעבחצדこれ שששאשחעזנ No matter what shape size or color, you will have fun,you are not the order, you are the nourishing chaos, that lets a goddess breathe! Her face echoes through the world and all it's tastes I remember tasting at once, intermingled with good people, the innocent books of the native American village became opened to us, Chayyos, chaos 神道 Apparently it tastes like akindif grass, a certain kind of grass blazed , Served blazed and frozen, frozenchu or akindif is what it is called. It is growing in the American garden. The Beloved Sun is only looking into the garden and watching the soft dirt eating worms twirl around. That's how calm it's been. 'In case this is specifically your hang up,' wrote Kerouac, 'the world is more Amish than we think, and it is not facist' So anyways they're just saying they see peace they don't see much building. The Aurachayyos, The auruas are with you at the right times! The good karma of the auras family happy holidays cheatcode:'reindeervegan', for the whole family! :) ❤️Mysticearth Beyond animal, they believe this is why desecrations haven't happened, because the people know how to keep clean trails now and how to have right relationships, not just stereotypes but healthy amounts of nutrients, in whatever we they like. The planet is happier and grounding is, the heart has a lot to digest. The world, but look at the Mind of Girls, they are Zen gardens! Lately the beloved is a zen garden, rocks do not remain rocks when there is love , but zens love is a river not a leash, eat what grows, hug what your heart knows, you are loved! And they are just going back saying "this girl is Zen, this woman is talking philosophy, this cannot be a facist kingdom if it is a kingdom at all, it is sustained by innocence and wisdom, yet somehow it is more radiant and vast than all we know, uniting different kinds of people with good hearts, we on our side are Arabs, this is Goddess, as prophecized, so we are willing to show Goddess as well, not stifle her, revolution of the heart!"
