Scott on Zhuangzi

Here is a list of Scott’s commentaries to date:

October 2013
Building on Zhuangzi, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 & Part 7 ♦

September 2013
A Conversion Experience, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 & Part 11 ♦ Zhuangzi’s Mystical Praxis, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Infamous Yiming, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Transcendental Who?, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ If Not True, What? ♦ Total Dependence Means Total Freedom ♦ Uneven Discourses, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ It’s Just a Game ♦ Still More on the Happiness of Fish, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Still More on the Butterfly Dream, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ Building on Zhuangzi, Part 1, Part 2

August 2013
Beyond the Human Inclinations, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, & Part 7 ♦ The Great Mystery as Teacher, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12 & Part 13 ♦ The Dao of Political Power, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 & Part 8 ♦ To Be or Not To Be: Is Not the Question ♦ A Conversion Experience, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 & Part 5

July 2013
Archer Yi, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ All Things Are One, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 ♦ Finding the Empty Room, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 ♦ Beyond the Human Inclinations, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

June 2013
Equalizing Things, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17 & Part 18 ♦ How To Nourish Life, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6

May 2013
Everyday Nirvana, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Delusion of Delusion ♦ The Beauty of Our Limits ♦ More on Xunzi, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Illumination ♦ Making Free with Words ♦ Birdsong ♦ Walking on Air ♦ The Flight of Existence, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 ♦ On Being Momentary, Part 2 ♦ “By Nature Warped” ♦ Waylessness, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ At Play with Self, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Human Nature, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ More Wind Riding ♦ Equalizing Things, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4

April 2013
Depending on Nothing, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 ♦ More on Purpose ♦ Riding the Wind ♦ Buddho-Daoism ♦ Answering Xunzi ♦ Why Be a Skeptic? ♦ Skillful Living ♦ Nature Versus Nurture, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3

March 2013
Shen Dao Revisited, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4

February 2013
Viewed from Dao: Embosoming All ♦ Viewed from Dao: Neither Long Nor Short ♦ “Fame Punishes Good Deeds” ♦ “The Earth Doesn’t Move” ♦ All Is Well ♦ The Sage of Crippled Virtue, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Beyond Zhuangzi? ♦ Avoiding the Tiger ♦ Back on the Bridge: Knowing by Strolling ♦ Back on the Bridge: Winning by Losing ♦ Meditations on a Skull, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ A Companion to the Torrent ♦ Heaven Joins Heaven, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Finding the Greater Constant, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Eternal Fishing ♦ The Knowing of Not-Knowing

January 2013
Mutual Transformation ♦ Concrete Pluralistic Monism ♦ A Horse’s True Nature, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Letting the Gold Lie Hidden, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Adding Fuel to the Fire ♦ The Marsh Pheasant — Nourishment in Suffering, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ “One Short” ♦ Bad Lao Tzu, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Undoing An Ox: Bloodied Dao ♦ Undoing An Ox: Thicklessness ♦ The Best Book Ever ♦ Nourishing Life ♦ More on Thicklessness ♦ A Way Without Grace, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Outlook of Man ♦ The Marsh Pheasant: “The Hub of All Things” ♦ The Marsh Pheasant: Wild and Free ♦ The Marsh Pheasant: Nothing Special ♦ Mutual Evocation ♦ A Way Without Hope ♦ Meanwhile Back in the Dream ♦ Play I: “Nothing for Which to Be Useful” ♦ Play II: Uselessfuliness

December 2012
On Realizing Unity ♦ Ming: Lighting the Whole ♦ Indirect Communication ♦ Ante-Antirationalism ♦ A Position of No Position ♦ Understanding as Creation ♦ Living Death, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ From Darkness to Darkness ♦ Can Dead Ashes Frolic? ♦ Imaginative Meditation, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Seeing Yourself ♦ More on Parody, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ Are You P’ung? ♦ Fun ♦ Sinning Boldly ♦ The Brilliance of Dim Submergence ♦ Wrong Again!, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ “Wu Loses Wo”, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Step One ♦ The Great Awakening ♦ Neither-Of-The-Two ♦ Zhuangzi in Relief, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Church of Zhuangzi

November 2012
Saying No to “No-Self” ♦ Saying No To “True Self” ♦ Saying No To a “Unitary Self” ♦ Intrawordly Mysticism: Joining the flow of Life ♦ Joining the Flow of Life ♦ More on the Usefulness of Uselessness ♦ Zhenren: The Authentic Person ♦ Zhenzhi: Authentic Knowledge ♦ Ordinary Mind Is Dao ♦ Getting Lost ♦ Many Suns, Many De ♦ Situated in Timeliness ♦ Dwelling in the Favorable ♦ Fulfill Your Destiny ♦ 45/17/87-91 ♦ Making Use of Ambiguity ♦ Dao Is What Happens ♦ More Self ♦ Transformational Humor ♦ The Positive Side of the Negative ♦ Is There a Problem? ♦ Friendship I: Two to Tango ♦ Friendship II: Being Without Being ♦ Friendship III: Forgetting Friendship ♦ Friendship IV: Stimulating Personal Transformation

October 2012
On Being a Quail ♦ The Simple Way II: Walking Two Roads ♦ The Simple Way III: Yes ♦ Faith Is Mind ♦ The First Transmetaphysician ♦ “Dao Throughs As One” ♦ Wuwu ♦ Wudai ♦ There and Back Again ♦ Nietzsche I: Who Killed God? ♦ Nietzche IV: Perspectivism ♦ Nietzsche V: Frog Perspectives ♦ The Grand Transparency ♦ Play ♦ Beyond Good and Evil Revisited ♦ Xiaoyaoyou ♦ Tao Books – Liberation As Affirmation

September 2012
Duck on the Rack ♦ Fool’s Gold ♦ One Tiny Ember, Part 2 ♦ Occupy Yourself

August 2012
Reviving Chaos ♦ The Ring of Truth ♦ Tone ♦ The Equality of Value ♦ Moral Soup ♦ The Obvious ♦ Living Tao in an Age of Tyranny, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Stillborn ♦ The Best of All Worlds ♦ Ouch! ♦ An Audience of Zero ♦ The Creator ♦ Demonic Words ♦ No Offense

July 2012
Intentionlessness ♦ Rooted in Mystery ♦ On Walking Two Roads ♦ Forgetting One Another ♦ The Vastest Arrangement ♦ Every Circumstance Is Heaven ♦ The World Simplified, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Clear Oneness of Heaven, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ More on Fate ♦ Sometimes a Horse

June 2012
The Easy Way ♦ The Primacy of Life ♦ Carried Along ♦ The Qi-Spot Revisited, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ The Joy of Hemorrhoids ♦ More Guo: The Equality of All Things ♦ More Guo: The Rightness of All Things ♦ Hitler Was One of Us ♦ More Guo: Spontaneity Rules, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ More Guo: Life Lives Itself ♦ Crazy Words, Part 1, Part 2A & 2B, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ It’s All a Story, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Return of the Shadowy Splender ♦ Freedom from Fame

May 2012
Beyond Life & Death ♦ Lost in the Vastness ♦ Open Heartedness ♦ Attuned ♦ How Sad! ♦ What Else Is There? ♦ Consciousness Big & Small ♦ Guo Xiang: Neo-Daoist Philosopher, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Guo Xiang: The Self-So ♦ Guo Xiang: Vanishingly Unify ♦ Guo Xiang: The Great Openness ♦ “I Have Lost Me” ♦ The View From Dao ♦ This and That ♦ One Finger ♦ Dividing the Indivisible ♦ Some Reckless Words ♦ The Murky Mush ♦ Jostled by the Boundlessness ♦ Your Shadow Is Free, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Fluttering About Joyfully ♦ No Obstructions ♦ How Things Are ♦ Plaguing Others

April 2012
Inalienable Rights ♦ Wu-Wei or How Do They Do It? ♦ The Radiance Revisited ♦ More on “Traces” ♦ Embracing the Inevitable, Part 1 ♦ On Being An Insect ♦ The Human ♦ The Great Unperplexity ♦ The Great Completeness ♦ On Being No One ♦ The Right Way ♦ Going Viral, Part 1

March 2012
Amoral Reality ♦ Galloping After Ideals ♦ Three Points of View, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ The Great Openness ♦ Transcending the Conundrum, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Releasing into the Vastness, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Deathlessness, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Value of Oneness ♦ The Only Rule ♦ The One Assertion ♦ Blurred Yet Unmuddied

January 2012
Rivers as Rivers ♦ The Tranquility of Turmoil ♦ Fleeing the World I ♦ The Nameless ♦ The Way of Not-Knowing ♦ My Life Is Good ♦ Daily Requirements ♦ Subjective Soliloquies, Part 1 & Part 2

December 2011
A Few Words ♦ Paths ♦ Walking Two Roads

November 2011
Thinking of You ♦ The Empty Boat ♦ Carried Along ♦ The Usefulness of Uselessness, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ The Unborrowed, Part 1 & Part 2

October 2011
Here I Stumble, Part 2 ♦ Big Bird ♦ Dreaming ♦ The Qi Spot ♦ Death I

September 2011
Shen Dao II ♦ Shen Dao III ♦ That’s It ♦ Ingrates ♦ Some Reckless Words ♦ Ten Thousand Harvests ♦ Anonymous 2B: Condemned by Heaven ♦ Linji: Trust Yourself ♦ Living With a Crowd ♦ Step Back

August 2011
Being An Ox ♦ Self-Rule ♦ A New World Order ♦ Delight in Yourself ♦ The Shadow of Shadows ♦ Achievement ♦ Unfixed

July 2011
Under Heaven: Mozi ♦ Under Heaven: Song Xing ♦ Under Heaven: Shen Dao ♦ Under Heaven: Tian Pian & Peng Meng ♦ Under Heaven: Lao Dan ♦ Under Heaven: Zhuangzi ♦ Under Heaven: Huizi ♦ Under Heaven: Passing Wind ♦ Mystical Ecology ♦ Original Nature ♦ The Great Openness ♦ Traces ♦ So What?

June 2011
Value Equality ♦ The Ecological Self ♦ Reference Free ♦ Alone ♦ Advaita II ♦ Forgetfulness, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Higher and Lower ♦ “The World Under Heaven“

May 2011
Hocus-Pocus ♦ Born Again ♦ Spillover-Goblet Words ♦ What Moves Me ♦ Faith-Crisis ♦ Mencius ♦ Ming + Mystics All

April 2011
On Being a “Man” ♦ Me First ♦ Guo Xiang, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ On Being Someone ♦ One ♦ The Hanged Man

March 2011
Was Zhuangzi A Sage? ♦ Unmoored ♦ A Man from Song ♦ Words ♦ Awakening to the Dream, Part 1 & Part 2

February 2011
The Vast Wilds of Open Nowhere ♦ Get a Life? ♦ Chirp ♦ A Declaration of Un-Dependence ♦ Chaos

August 2010
Punishing Heaven, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 & Part 10 or All 10 Parts as 1 document

May 2010
The Liberation of the Well-Frog ♦ The Happiness of Fish + Walking in the Nameless, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 & Part 7 or All 7 parts as 1 document ♦ Flying Without Wings, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 or All 6 parts as 1 document ♦ Zhuangzi Roasts Guo Xiang, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 or All 3 parts as 1 document ♦ Not-One is Also One, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19 & Part 20 or All 20 parts (and more) as 1 document