So from the sage’s emptiness, stillness arises:įrom stillness, action. Silence, non-action: this is the level of heaven and earth.įrom this, the conditioned, the individual things. You can look in it and see the bristles on your chin.Įmptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, The sage is quiet because he is not moved, The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu, author of foundational Taoist texts, writes in this poem: “The sage is quiet because he is not moved / Not because he wills to be quiet.” Inaction, he argues, is a type of action an appropriate response that arises from the tranquility of the clear, level spirit of man, and such a state is the resting place of the wise. The true stillness that is at the root of human wisdom and the Taoist endeavor is a positive state, in as much as it is not the absence of anything nor a resistance to anything.
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