The Liezi (Chinese: 列子; Wade–Giles: Lieh-tzu) is a Taoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, a c. 5th century BC Hundred Schools of Thought philosopher. Although...
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considered the author of the Daoist book Liezi, which uses his honorific name Liezi (Chinese: 列子; pinyin: Lièzǐ; Wade–Giles: Lieh4-tzŭ3; lit. 'Master Lie')...
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Guixu (section Guixu in Liezi)
purity that one achieves through attunement with the Dao. In the Taoist text Liezi, Guixu is located billions of li East of the Bohai Sea. There, all the water...
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Wuji (philosophy) (section Liezi)
— (Balfour 1884, chapter 1, p. 86) The (c. 4th century CE) Taoist Liezi uses wuji (meaning "limitless") eight times in a cosmological dialogue (with...
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of perseverance and willpower. The tale first appeared in Book 5 of the Liezi, a Daoist text of the 4th century BC, and was retold in the Garden of Stories...
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Zichan (section Deng Xi in the Liezi)
teach simple hedonism, nor did Yang Chu, 'his' Liezi chapter clearly adopts a hedonism. Elsewhere in the Liezi, however, hedonism is explicitly criticized...
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as continuing traditions first embodied by the Daodejing, Zhuangzi, and Liezi. The canon was assembled by monks c. 400 CE in an attempt to bring together...
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Chinese works have also portrayed the concept of fate, most notably the Liezi, Mengzi, and the Zhuangzi. Similarly, and in Italy, the Spanish Duque de...
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Xian (Taoism) (section Liezi)
how Daoists viewed immortality. Early text such as Zhuangzi, Chuci, and Liezi texts allegorically used xian immortals and magic islands to describe spiritual...
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