/lit/ - Literature

>>4178049
I think some people live like this naturally

But this was a philosophy in a historical context, it was responding to the overly intellectual Chinese philosophies of the 100 schools, especially Confucianism. So even though its trying to get at this non verbal, simplistic and natural way of being, it's trying to argue this to a bunch of upper class Chinese intellectuals, so the actual written work is very sophisticated philosophically and aesthetically - but it also includes within it the caveat that the truth it is pointing to is beyond all words (the Dao that can be named is not the true Dao, etc)

>>3497729
yeah this

the whole egoism thing collapses once you realize the conditionality of that which we call the 'self'

The only way to truly be free is to realize that this self is inherently empty of fixed essence-existence and - paradoxically - to stop trying to 'be free'. Only then can truly spontaneous action arise.