{"id":626,"date":"2020-03-30T01:31:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T01:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=626"},"modified":"2020-03-30T01:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T01:31:44","slug":"eks-china-post-4-the-one-about-me-still-not-understanding-daoism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/03\/30\/eks-china-post-4-the-one-about-me-still-not-understanding-daoism\/","title":{"rendered":"EKS China Post 4: The One About Me Still Not Understanding Daoism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished rereading Excerpts from Chuang Tzu, which talks about Daoism. I am thoroughly confused about what i just read. To my knowledge, the idea of Daoism\/Taoism is simply\u00a0<em>being\u00a0<\/em>(is that it, because i hope it is). There is nothing else to it; it just seems like everything is just\u00a0<em>being<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know what all things agree in calling right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would I know that?\u201d said Wang Ni.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know that you don\u2019t know it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would I know that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen do things know nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was one of many confusing parts to this reading. Here is how I understand this part (feel free to correct me if my interpretation isn&#8217;t right). Say for example, there is a mountain. I call it a mountain, and someone else calls a different thing. We all understand that a mountain is a mountain is a mountain, but that someone else and me both understand that the mountain is in fact a mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Another general bigger picture idea that I may or may not have been able to garner from the reading is that\u00a0<em>Dao\u00a0<\/em>kinda has to do with something like a never ending journey in a sense; always learning about the world around us. Because if you stop learning, you stop understanding how the world functions and <em>is<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished rereading Excerpts from Chuang Tzu, which talks about Daoism. I am thoroughly confused about what i just read. To my knowledge, the idea of Daoism\/Taoism is simply\u00a0being\u00a0(is that it, because i hope it is). There is nothing else to it; it just seems like everything is just\u00a0being. \u201cDo you know what all things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[437999,437998],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ekschina","tag-ekspost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}