Shadow said, "Do I have to wait for something before I can be like this? Does what I wait for also have to wait for something before it can be like this? Am I waiting for the scales of a snake or the wings of a cicada? How do I know why it is so? How do I know why it isn't so?" #Zhuangzi (Watson trans.)

#cicada

Another striking similarity is between what I was writing about regarding the butterfly story in the Zhuangzi and this passage from "Beyond Nature and Culture" by anthropologist Philippe Descola:

https://freeanduneasy.blog/humanity-as-a-condition/

#Daoism #Taoism #Zhuangzi #Anthropology

Though I can’t access the experience of mushroom selfhood or butterfly selfhood—I can’t know what it’s like to be those people—there is some relationship between the mushroom and me, the butterfly and me, some common rouser or piper that pipes 'puhpowee' in the night and creates the conditions for all of our selves to emerge, however different they are from each other.

https://freeanduneasy.blog/we-are-the-morning-mushrooms/

#BraidingSweetgrass #Zhuangzi #Identity #Self #RobinWallKimmerer #IndigenousKnowledge #Daoism #Taoism

4/ It took me a long time to finish it, and it is quite long, but I hope it captures my thought process, or the connection I see between these two texts and why it matters.

https://freeanduneasy.blog/we-are-the-morning-mushrooms/

#WritingCommunity #Zhuangzi #Daoism #Taoism #BraidingSweetgrass #Mushrooms #Butterfly #Mushtadon #Fungi #Fungiverse #Self #Identity @writingcommunity

1/ I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but whenever I read a new book I'm always thinking about ways it connects or relates to all the other books I've read.

Naturally, because I tend to reread a lot of the same things (like #Thoreau and #Zhuangzi) I tend to more easily find connections between new books and those more familiar ones.

When I first read #BraidingSweetgrass a few years ago I immediately felt many, many connections to both.

I know this is the *ideal* time to post a nearly 4000 word blog post on selfhood, identity, fungi, and butterflies. Who doesn't want to spend their Friday night reading long personal musings about Daoism and indigenous knowledge???

https://freeanduneasy.blog/we-are-the-morning-mushrooms/

@writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #Daoism #Taoism #Zhuangzi #BraidingSweetgrass #IndigenousKnowledge

2/2 'All men,' they said, 'have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe. But Chaotic Blob alone doesn't have any. Let's try boring him some!'

Every day they bored another hole, and on the seventh day Chaotic Blob died."

#Zhuangzi (a blend of Watson and Ziporyn translations)

#zhuangzi

2/2 Il y en aura d'autres bientôt. Mastodon n'y pourra rien.

Il y a des livres qu'il ne faut cesser de relire. Ils sont extrêmement rares. Celui que je suis à relire, indiqué en mot-dièse, m'a dénoué d'autres raisons.

#gemini #manjaro #linux #mozilla #zhuangzi

Les cormorans qui pêchent trop longtemps mettent plus longtemps à sécher.
L'eau leur fait de l'effet.
La lecture me fait de l'effet.

Pourquoi firefox est si lourd ? Manjaro : c'est très agréable de vérifier que la ruche s'occupe de vous, la butineuse, et qu'il y a de nombreux rayons supplémentaires à chacun de vos retours.
Gemini, j'y serai mieux. Je ne vais pas en donner les raisons. Il y a des raisons que j'ai lues, par exemple chez Ploum @ploum

“There are these five facts that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained. Which five?
“‘I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging.’
“‘I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness’.…
“‘I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death’….

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#zen #zhuangzi #Daoism #sutta #Dharma

#wense #wandern #williams #zhuangzi #et #d'autres...

Je viens ici écrire que j'écris ailleurs.

Shamefully sharing my latest blog post again, this time with fewer typos.

A long post on the struggle to find my way in a world I wasn't prepared for, and the challenges of making and keeping relationships while caring for another.

https://freeanduneasy.blog/becoming-friends-with-the-depths/

@writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #caregiving #disability #Daoism #Zhuangzi

If you're looking for a 3000 word personal reflection on the #Zhuangzi and how it relates to my own struggle to make and keep close relationships while being a #caregiver to my disabled brother, then I have just the thing for you:

https://freeanduneasy.blog/becoming-friends-with-the-depths/

#Disability #Daoism #LongRead #WritingCommunity #Blogging

(Bonus quote by @TaoJiang)

3/3 So if you want a #LongRead about the #Zhuangzi and how it relates to me being a #Caregiver to my brother, and how that makes having meaningful friendships and other relationships impossible, then this one is for you.

https://freeanduneasy.blog/becoming-friends-with-the-depths/

@writingcommunity #WritingCommunity

...
Mais il ne savait pas s'il était Zhuangzi qui avait rêvé qu'il était un papillon, ou un papillon qui rêvait qu'il était Zhuangzi.
Entre Zhuangzi et un papillon, il doit bien exister une différence !
C'est ce qu'on appelle la Transformation des choses. »

#Tchouang-tseu, #Zhuangzi, chapitre II, « Discours sur l'identité des choses »

« Zhuangzi rêva une fois qu'il était un papillon,
un papillon qui voletait et voltigeait alentour, heureux de lui-même et faisant ce qui lui plaisait. Il ne savait pas qu'il était Zhuangzi.
Soudain, il se réveilla, et il se tenait là, un Zhuangzi indiscutable et massif.
...

#Tchouang-tseu, #Zhuangzi, chapitre II, « Discours sur l'identité des choses »

2/ "Now suppose a great master smith were casting metal. If the metal jumped up and said, 'I insist on being nothing but an Excalibur!' the smith would surely consider it to be an inauspicious chunk of metal. Now if I, having happened to stumble into a human form, should insist, 'Only a human! Only a human!' Creation-Transformation would certainly consider me an inauspicious chunk of person."

(Ziporyn translation) #Zhuangzi

1/ This week might be one of those weeks where I have absolutely no energy or inspiration to write but force myself to do it anyway just to get things unclogged and moving again.

It's hard to adjust my expectations accordingly. Not just this time, but every time I try to write. I have this (admittedly silly) expectation that everything new I write will be better than the last, each a masterpiece somehow. It reminds me of a story from the #Zhuangzi...

#WritingCommunity @writingcommunity

From chapter 6 of the #Zhuangzi:

"What makes my life good is what makes my death good; that I consider my life good is what makes me consider my death good."

#quote #daoism #taoism #death

"You think you do right to hide little things in big ones, and yet they get away from you. But if you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things." (chapter 6 #zhuangzi Watson trans.)

@zhuangzi @taoism #daoism #taoismo