To Convey the True Actuality of Things

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 13 The Way of Heaven

Whatever can be viewed and gazed upon, is assembled from forms and colors. Whatever can be heard and listened to, possesses name and sound. Alas! What a tragedy, that men of the world should assume that to grasp the true actuality of all things, form and color, name and sound can suffice. In fact, they cannot begin to convey the true actuality of things. Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know. How is it possible for the world to remain so completely deaf and blind to this?
 
故视而可见者,形与色也;听而可闻者,名与声也。悲夫,世人以形色名声为足以得彼之情!夫形色名声果不足以得彼之情,则知者不言,言者不知,而世岂识之哉?
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