#chinese philosopher

[krumpkin]

These words are all very true even after all these years 😊

[a-contemplative-soul]

“The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness”

Author: Lao Tzu

[yoga-onion]

The Way always does nothing and never does nothing.

Lao Tzu also rendered as Laozi ( b. Unknown, 6th century – 4th century BCE, commonly translated as "Old Master") was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.

In other words, the way one goes is always doing nothing and yet doing everything.

In relation to the 8th of the 18 kinds of emptiness, Inaction (Skt. Asamskrta: i.e. “uncompounded objects”, is a state of being left to nature, without any artifice. Ref) the object of the Buddhist observation of emptiness, the words of the Chinese thinker Laozi.

“道は常に何もしないが(無為)、決して何もしないことはない。”

ー老子 (ろうし、生年不詳、前6世紀-前4世紀、通称「老師」)は、古代中国の哲学者、著述家である。哲学的な道教の創始者であり、宗教的な道教(タオイズム)や中国の伝統的な宗教における神であり、その著者と言われている。

言い換えれば、「道 (みち)とは常に何事も為さない(無為)でいて、しかもすべてのことを為している」ということ。仏教における空(くう)を観察するときの対象、十八空の8番目に述べた無為空の無為 (むい、梵: アサンスクリタ 参照)に関連して、中国の思想家の老子の言葉を述べました。

[falseandrealultravival]

Butterfly dream(poetry)

荘子(Zhuang Zhou)

I was roaming the road

When I suddenly look With white plums mixed with red Snow-willow

with fragrance and color approaching

This makes me happy. What a treat.

I'm like Zhuangzi I felt like I turned into a butterfly.

@ "Butterfly dream" is an episode written by a Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi.

(2010.04.06)rei

[sheltiechicago]

Tame, 2019

Enter the void: photographs that find beauty in emptiness – in pictures

Paul Cupido’s Japan series is inspired by a saying of the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi: ‘An empty room will be filled with light because of its emptiness’

The concept of mukayu is beautifully explained in a quote by the famous Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, who lived 2,300 years ago: ‘An empty room will be filled with light because of its emptiness’

Neko (Cat), 2019

Kumo (Cloud) II, 2019

Ma Continuum, 2019

[eyeamthat]

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Chuang Tzu

[eyeamthat]

Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find someone who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

Chuang Tzu 

[eyeamthat]

The sound of water says what I think.

Chuang Tzu