One recurring theme in this man's stories is exemplified by a cicada and a wren who dismiss tales of birds flying hundreds of miles as impossible because they can barely reach a nearby tree. In one story, this man compared himself to a "holy tortoise" who would rather "drag its tail in the mud" than be dead and have its bones venerated, thus rejecting a position in the Kingdom of Wei. He claimed to know for a fact that darting around gives minnows pleasure while crossing a bridge with Huishi, and a god of rivers realizes that the ocean is infinite in the famous "Autumn floods" section of the work named for this man. Tales of a hunchback who catches cicadas and a bellstand carver who fasts are amongst the illustrations of this man's concept of "flowing cognition" or
One recurring theme in this man's stories is exemplified by a cicada and a wren who dismiss tales of birds flying hundreds of miles as impossible because they can barely reach a nearby tree. In one story, this man compared himself to a "holy tortoise" who would rather "drag its tail in the mud" than be dead and have its bones venerated, thus rejecting a position in the Kingdom of Wei. He claimed to know for a fact that darting around gives minnows pleasure while crossing a bridge with Huishi, and a god of rivers realizes that the ocean is infinite in the famous "Autumn floods" section of the work named for this man. Tales of a hunchback who catches cicadas and a bellstand carver who fasts are amongst the illustrations of this man's concept of "flowing cognition" or "yan-shi." For 10 points, name this Chinese philosopher best known for his "butterfly dream."
One recurring theme in this man's stories is exemplified by a cicada and a wren who dismiss tales of birds flying hundreds of miles as impossible because they can barely reach a nearby tree.
{Zhuangzhi} or {Chuang Tzu}