Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu, or Chuang Tse (literally meaning "Master Zhuang") was a famous philosopher in ancient China who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, corresponding to the Hundred Schools of Thought philosophical summit of Chinese thought.

6 Quotes

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
— Chuang Tzu

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
— Chuang Tzu

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
— Chuang Tzu

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
— Chuang Tzu

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
— Chuang Tzu

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
— Chuang Tzu