莊子
Farm Boy
Farm Boy is Zhuangzi is Chuang Tzu. And 莊子 is 庄子. And here we are discussing identical things. This is almost certainly not the Zhuangzi you were looking for. Which is why you found it. That's how these things work.
The Zhuangzi you were looking for is the product of thirteen hundred years of religion, corrupting a way of thought which was already nine hundred years old when the religion latched onto it. Zhuangzi was no more Daoist than you are. No one is. That's how these things work.
The Zhuangzi you were looking for is a la-de-da potpourri of mystical wish-vapors. Vapors don't last. They dissipate. If Zhuangzi had written what you were looking for, it would have dissipated long before religion ever latched onto it. What Zhuangzi wrote was direct and practical. And that is exactly the Zhuangzi you have found. You, or rather, what you think is you, won't like it. But that's how these things work.
At least you know where you are.
內篇 - Inside Stuff
(7 chapters)- 逍遙遊 - Wandering Far and Free
- 齊物論 - Discussing Identical Things
- 養生主 - Master of Maintaining Good Health
- 人間世 - Life in the Human World