Zhuangzi · Philosophy
Zhuangzi’s vision of spiritual freedom - <em>xiaoyao you</em>, ‘free and easy wandering’ - soars with the vast Peng bird beyond every narrow measure, and completes itself in his serene acceptance of death, most famously when he drummed on a tub and sang at his own wife’s funeral.
You learned that xiaoyao you (‘free and easy wandering’) is Zhuangzi’s ideal of spiritual freedom - roaming beyond narrow perspectives and dependence, like the vast Peng bird - and that it completes itself in equanimity toward death, seen as a natural transformation (Zhuangzi drumming on a tub at his…
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