Unbending

“…Huizi, Zhuangzi’s friend, tells Zhuangzi that he was given a seed that grew into an enormous gourd, too flimsy to fill with liquid, and too large to cut and use as a dipper…Zhuangzi criticizes Huizi’s inability to see the use of the gourd from perspectives different from those to which he is accustomed, telling Huizi that he has ‘tangled weeds clogging up his mind.’

We know the world from our various unique perspectives, which, like Huizi’s, often becomes fixed and unbending.”

~Robin Wang in, How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy

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