Everything Will Simply Evolve By Itself

Book: Discourse on Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu promoted carefree wandering and becoming one with “Tao” by freeing oneself from entanglement through the Taoist principle of non-causative action.

Excerpt from book Discourse On Chuang Tzu / Chapter 17 Autumn Floods

Tao is without beginning or end, while all the myriad things know life and death. All is transient, so no fulfillment is everlasting. Now void, now full, no form endures. The years cannot be held in check, time cannot be arrested. Decay, growth, fullness, emptiness, and once again decay turn in a never-ending circle. Against this backdrop, let us discuss the expedient approach of Great Meaning, and engage in discourse about the principle of the myriads of things. The life of things is like a horse suddenly kicking up its heels and galloping off at full pelt. With each step, it makes the necessary adjustments and modifications, with each passing moments its position shifts. Where, then, is the moment to accommodate doing and where is the moment to accommodate not doing? Everything will simply evolve by itself!

 

道无终始,物有死生,不恃其成;一虚一满,不位乎其形。年不可举,时不可止;消息盈虚,终则有始。是所以语大义之方,论万物之理也。物之生也,若骤若驰,无动而不变,无时而不移。何为乎?何不为乎?夫固将自化。
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