Religion of East Asia

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Religion of East Asia

Religion of East Asia 1
Thesis and Scope of the excerpt
Chuang Tzu is identified as one of the most substantial and paradoxical philosophers
of Taoism. Taoism is a mystical philosophy which represents reality as an illusion shaped by
substantially shifting appearances. Taoism is a fundamental trait of Chinese thinking and the
Chinese outlook towards life and society. Chuang presented his ideas in an assortment of
short fables and allegories known as Chuang Tzu. Chuang induced a vision of perception
found in every crack of ordinary existence. This vision can be detained in the natural world
through ears and eyes. If it is considered that nothing is known of the life of Chuang Tzu’s
except his name was Chou and was a contemporary of Mencius. Chuang was a holy man and
the one who left the human realm behind the celestial journeys, astride on clouds and
dragons.
Critical Evaluation
In the “free and Easy Wandering”, Chuang defines the holy man. It is released by five
relationships and not involved in the government service like persons do not eat the millet
and grain conferred by Hou Chi. Add on; these are free from both labors and ritual
requirements of the material sphere in the agricultural society. The powers curtail from the
expansion of nonmaterial forces which never benefits society. Such spirits like people are
Mencius meant by sages who were sage like beyond all the consideration. The figures alike
Chuang Tzu appeared habitually as a holy man throughout the spiritual literature of China.
Hzun Tza made sure to the people that strange cries of trees were nothing of the basis
for alarm but hears them in the piping of heaven and earth give the identity of each thing. The
movements recollect the curative breaths of day and night on Mencius’s Ox Mountain. As per
Chuang, trees not only cry but talk and interconnect true values to human beings. The
carpenters also reject the wood due to the pit oak at the village shrine1. Hsun Tzu also hazes
and straightens it and appeared in the dream of Shih who is a carpenter to expose the
1 Cai, Z. (2017). New Paraphrase of Chuang Tzu. Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
USA.