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Chuang Tzu: Life
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Much of the Chuang Tzu focusses on the benefits of inaction. On this it followed the Tao-te-Ching, but took its philosophy to extremes. People should abandon concern for fame, power and wealth and follow a simple life. They should distrust ethical and political schemes and follow their instincts.
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Chuang Tzu leaves the real world to Han Fei Tzu. Han Fei prefers to predefine that which is "the good". Life is good. Death is not good. Rules/laws are iplaced in government to preserve life. Chuang Tzu questions everything.
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Once Chuang Tzu travelled in State Chu and came to a stretch of grassland where no houses were in sight. He found a skeleton hidden in the high grass, and it was worn by weather but every bone was there in the form of a human body. Chuang Tzu knocked it with his whip handle and asked, “Did you so lust for life that you acted without reason, and so ended ...? Or did you lose your state and fall as a victim of axe and sword, and so end thus? Or did you do something wrong and were shamed to see your parents, wife, and children, and so ended thus? Or did you freeze or starve, and so end thus?
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