The Zhuangzi
Hey #AcademicSky and #Medsky 🩺🧪
What book do you wish someone had given you as a first year undergrad? Or did someone give you that was pivotal for you?
(Or should it always be @bcdreyer.social’s English or Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Info?)
What book do you wish someone had given you as a first year undergrad? Or did someone give you that was pivotal for you?
(Or should it always be @bcdreyer.social’s English or Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Info?)
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The Zhuangzi
Starting this right after Zhuāngzǐ and WOW the Mahāyāna Buddhist vibes are SO DIFFERENT from the Daoist world I was in for a year...
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Starting this right after Zhuāngzǐ and WOW the Mahāyāna Buddhist vibes are SO DIFFERENT from the Daoist world I was in for a year...
I’m back in this book. It is so wild to read Chinese nationalists in the early 20th century advocating for western Aristotelian rationality because they felt that their own Chinese traditions lacked the philosophical rigor of the West. But, like, I just read Zhuangzi and it was amazing??
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I’m back in this book. It is so wild to read Chinese nationalists in the early 20th century advocating for western Aristotelian rationality because they felt that their own Chinese traditions lacked the philosophical rigor of the West. But, like, I just read Zhuangzi and it was amazing??
there's a Zhuang for that
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
there's a Zhuang for that
@consume.red Zhuangzi mentioned in the title of the film, in the dialogue of the scene in the thumbnail, and in the butterfly drawing also shown here :)
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
@consume.red Zhuangzi mentioned in the title of the film, in the dialogue of the scene in the thumbnail, and in the butterfly drawing also shown here :)
Every day the world conspires to drive you mad and you must choose whether to fight against that (Rawls, maybe?), or embrace it (Zhuangzi)
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Every day the world conspires to drive you mad and you must choose whether to fight against that (Rawls, maybe?), or embrace it (Zhuangzi)
the zhuangzi who got away
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
the zhuangzi who got away
more zhuangzi than ddj imo but basically yeah
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
more zhuangzi than ddj imo but basically yeah
"Erkenntnis läßt sich nicht von anderen lernen.
Erkenntnis muß aus dem eigenen Ich hervorgehen."
Zhuangzi
Ob Herr Merz jemals zur Erkenntnis gelangt, ist leider stark anzuzweifeln. #Stadtbild
Und damit einen guten Morgen und einen angenehmen Start in den Dienstag!
Erkenntnis muß aus dem eigenen Ich hervorgehen."
Zhuangzi
Ob Herr Merz jemals zur Erkenntnis gelangt, ist leider stark anzuzweifeln. #Stadtbild
Und damit einen guten Morgen und einen angenehmen Start in den Dienstag!
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"Erkenntnis läßt sich nicht von anderen lernen.
Erkenntnis muß aus dem eigenen Ich hervorgehen."
Zhuangzi
Ob Herr Merz jemals zur Erkenntnis gelangt, ist leider stark anzuzweifeln. #Stadtbild
Und damit einen guten Morgen und einen angenehmen Start in den Dienstag!
Erkenntnis muß aus dem eigenen Ich hervorgehen."
Zhuangzi
Ob Herr Merz jemals zur Erkenntnis gelangt, ist leider stark anzuzweifeln. #Stadtbild
Und damit einen guten Morgen und einen angenehmen Start in den Dienstag!
human dispositions is a great starter lack imho
October 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
human dispositions is a great starter lack imho
huizi spoke to zhuangzi, saying, "the king of wei gave me the seed of a big conker. i unboxed it, like it was nature's labubu. not that it wasn't hugely big, but it wasn't useful, so i destroyed it."
zhuangzi said, "you, master, are certainly clumsy when it comes to unboxing nature's labubu."
zhuangzi said, "you, master, are certainly clumsy when it comes to unboxing nature's labubu."
October 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
huizi spoke to zhuangzi, saying, "the king of wei gave me the seed of a big conker. i unboxed it, like it was nature's labubu. not that it wasn't hugely big, but it wasn't useful, so i destroyed it."
zhuangzi said, "you, master, are certainly clumsy when it comes to unboxing nature's labubu."
zhuangzi said, "you, master, are certainly clumsy when it comes to unboxing nature's labubu."
every so often the inscrutable Curriculum Gods let me teach a class that's just a close reading of the Zhuangzi inner chapters and every time they do it is the best class i teach
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
every so often the inscrutable Curriculum Gods let me teach a class that's just a close reading of the Zhuangzi inner chapters and every time they do it is the best class i teach
Zhuangzi (privately): I fuckin hate this tree too man
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Zhuangzi (privately): I fuckin hate this tree too man
"on my way!"
- the philosophers of zhuangzi
- the philosophers of zhuangzi
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"on my way!"
- the philosophers of zhuangzi
- the philosophers of zhuangzi
Dr. Kitagawa, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has carried out his research while keeping in mind the concept of “the usefulness of uselessness” from the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi. Although he is a scientist, his way of thinking is philosophical and distinctly Asian in spirit
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Dr. Kitagawa, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has carried out his research while keeping in mind the concept of “the usefulness of uselessness” from the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi. Although he is a scientist, his way of thinking is philosophical and distinctly Asian in spirit
Thank you. Only way I’ve found to deal with grief is to try and put into the world more of what the people we miss loved. Probably should donate a copy of Zhuangzi as well.
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thank you. Only way I’ve found to deal with grief is to try and put into the world more of what the people we miss loved. Probably should donate a copy of Zhuangzi as well.
Mourning the passing of Kidder Smith Jr (images.bowdoin.edu/omeka/items/..., www.chronicleproject.com/the-passing-...), formerly of Bowdoin College, who passed away on Sep. 30, 2025. Apart from his Sunzi translations and edited volume on the Zhuangzi and Rationality (1991), the Early China (1/3)
Kidder Smith and John Holt, faculty · Bowdoin College Library Special Collections & Archives
images.bowdoin.edu
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Mourning the passing of Kidder Smith Jr (images.bowdoin.edu/omeka/items/..., www.chronicleproject.com/the-passing-...), formerly of Bowdoin College, who passed away on Sep. 30, 2025. Apart from his Sunzi translations and edited volume on the Zhuangzi and Rationality (1991), the Early China (1/3)
How do we know the dog didn't know he was in a horror movie?
(See Zhuangzi 莊子 and Huizi 惠子)
(See Zhuangzi 莊子 and Huizi 惠子)
October 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
How do we know the dog didn't know he was in a horror movie?
(See Zhuangzi 莊子 and Huizi 惠子)
(See Zhuangzi 莊子 and Huizi 惠子)
let's dehumanize zhuangzi next
October 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
let's dehumanize zhuangzi next
one nice thing about the zhuangzi is that people translate the names a lot
I wonder if people would understand Plato better if we translated the names also.
If so, get ready for a dialogue about rhetoric between Vigor and Powerful Salvation with interjections by Colt and Beautiful Fame.
If so, get ready for a dialogue about rhetoric between Vigor and Powerful Salvation with interjections by Colt and Beautiful Fame.
September 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
one nice thing about the zhuangzi is that people translate the names a lot
my favourite zhuangzi character is pussy-facing-the-world
September 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
my favourite zhuangzi character is pussy-facing-the-world
#BOTD 1893
Lai Man-wai: the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema", director of the first Hong Kong film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife (1913).
www.chinesecinemas.org/laimanwai.html
Lai Man-wai: the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema", director of the first Hong Kong film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife (1913).
www.chinesecinemas.org/laimanwai.html
September 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#BOTD 1893
Lai Man-wai: the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema", director of the first Hong Kong film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife (1913).
www.chinesecinemas.org/laimanwai.html
Lai Man-wai: the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema", director of the first Hong Kong film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife (1913).
www.chinesecinemas.org/laimanwai.html
Maybe the best meme I have ever made:
September 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Maybe the best meme I have ever made:
This post is huizi tested and zhuangzi approved
in honor of the first day of fall, here's a reminder that jim martin of 'faith no more' went on to grow award-winning ginormous pumpkins. 🎃
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This post is huizi tested and zhuangzi approved