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Zhuang Zi and the Fully Realized Human

Patrick Edwin Moran

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Description:In the early morning of philosophy, Chinese philosophy and Greek philosophy chose divergent paths. The Chinese tended to regard everything in the Universe as a unity. The Greeks, and those who followed them, tended to regard things as being made up of discrete components. The Greek ideas led to the modern idea of a Universe composed of a huge, and possibly infinite, number of elementary particles. The Chinese ideas led in another direction that the West first approached via the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, was purified of some of its hangovers from medieval philosophy by Edmund Husserl, and eventually appears in context of physics as quantum mechanics. It is very difficult for humans to comprehend the idea of a Universe that contains no discrete entities, a Universe that is a continuum, not a Universe that could be taken apart as one would disassemble a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Zhuang Zi understood that experience comes to humans as a continuum. In nature there are no black lines drawn around birds, trees, or anything else. Humans, metaphorically speaking, draw lines around so-called "things," give them names, make up more-or-less plausible narratives about them, and assign values to them. Sometimes humans get it really wrong and have to learn how to remove value tags and even erase lines, and then look at really there and try to make a more appropriate "figure and ground" separation. One example of the need to tear down old conceptualizations is the history of our understanding of light. At first, Newton thought of it as "corpuscles," next, it was discovered that light can produce interference patterns, so light was declared to be a wave phenomenon. With the advent of quantum mechanics it was learned that light, paradoxically, has characteristics of both wave and particle, and what you observe will depend on how you look at it.This book uses examples from martial arts to illuminate what Zhuang Zi says because fighting demands rapid evaluations used to maintain total situational awareness, a circumstance that penalizes people severely for mis-perception or mis-conceptualization. As one Japanese martial arts teachers explained, karate is moving Zen. Zen is deeply indebted to the worldview developed by Zhuang Zi and Lao Zi. This book uses martial arts as one way toward understanding what Zhuang Zi is talking about.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Zhuang Zi and the Fully Realized Human. To get started finding Zhuang Zi and the Fully Realized Human, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 517

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Self-published

Release: 2014

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Description: In the early morning of philosophy, Chinese philosophy and Greek philosophy chose divergent paths. The Chinese tended to regard everything in the Universe as a unity. The Greeks, and those who followed them, tended to regard things as being made up of discrete components. The Greek ideas led to the modern idea of a Universe composed of a huge, and possibly infinite, number of elementary particles. The Chinese ideas led in another direction that the West first approached via the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, was purified of some of its hangovers from medieval philosophy by Edmund Husserl, and eventually appears in context of physics as quantum mechanics. It is very difficult for humans to comprehend the idea of a Universe that contains no discrete entities, a Universe that is a continuum, not a Universe that could be taken apart as one would disassemble a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Zhuang Zi understood that experience comes to humans as a continuum. In nature there are no black lines drawn around birds, trees, or anything else. Humans, metaphorically speaking, draw lines around so-called "things," give them names, make up more-or-less plausible narratives about them, and assign values to them. Sometimes humans get it really wrong and have to learn how to remove value tags and even erase lines, and then look at really there and try to make a more appropriate "figure and ground" separation. One example of the need to tear down old conceptualizations is the history of our understanding of light. At first, Newton thought of it as "corpuscles," next, it was discovered that light can produce interference patterns, so light was declared to be a wave phenomenon. With the advent of quantum mechanics it was learned that light, paradoxically, has characteristics of both wave and particle, and what you observe will depend on how you look at it.This book uses examples from martial arts to illuminate what Zhuang Zi says because fighting demands rapid evaluations used to maintain total situational awareness, a circumstance that penalizes people severely for mis-perception or mis-conceptualization. As one Japanese martial arts teachers explained, karate is moving Zen. Zen is deeply indebted to the worldview developed by Zhuang Zi and Lao Zi. This book uses martial arts as one way toward understanding what Zhuang Zi is talking about.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Zhuang Zi and the Fully Realized Human. To get started finding Zhuang Zi and the Fully Realized Human, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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