Zhuangzi by Zhuangzi

Author:Zhuangzi [Zhuangzi; Ziporyn, Brook (trans.)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2020-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

1. Omitting the second 俗, and parsing the parallelism as suggested by Jiao Hong. Alternately, taking 欲 for the second 俗 as suggested by Zhu Dezhi and as seemingly assumed in Guo Xiang’s comment, the meaning would be: “They have already tailored their inborn nature to accord with convention, and now wish to use learning to seek a way to return it to its initial state; they have already reconfigured their desires to accord with convention, and now use thinking as a way to extend their understanding of them.”

2. Heli 和理. On Li, see Glossary.

3. Or, reading 偏 for 遍 as Guo Xiang does, “practiced one-sidedly”!

4. Cf. Daodejing 51.

5. The first to use fire to cook food and the first to domesticate animals, respectively.

6. Both of whom were said to have launched punitive expeditions to suppress rebels against their regimes.

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