Taoism 3

In an effort to decide how I wanted to approach this paper, I decided to search the Internet to see what today's world held for me on the matters of Chinese Philosophy. One quote describing Chuang Tzu, the topic of my research paper, stuck out. In describing what this person thought was the overlying teachings of Chuang Tzu he stated, "The individual could attain mystical unity with this One by achieving complete emptiness or hsü …

…freed himself from conventional standards of judgment can no longer be made to suffer…He does not in any literal sense withdraw and hide from the world……He remains in society but refrains from acting out of the motives that lead ordinary men to struggle for wealth, fame, success, or safety….In such a state, all human actions become spontaneous and mindless as those of the natural world. Man becomes one with Nature, or Heaven.