Zhuangzi

[SmokeytheBuddha]

or Chuang-tzu if you're not into the whole proper nomenclature thing.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/z/zhuangzi.htm

"Zhuangzi espoused a holistic philosophy of life, encouraging disengagement from the artificialities of socialization, and cultivation of our natural ?ancestral? potencies and skills, in order to live a simple and natural, but full and flourishing life. He was critical of our ordinary categorizations and evaluations, noting the multiplicity of different modes of understanding between different creatures, cultures, and philosophical schools, and the lack of an independent means of making a comparative evaluation. He advocated a mode of understanding that is not committed to a fixed system, but is fluid and flexible, and that maintains a provisional, pragmatic attitude towards the applicability of these categories and evaluations."

He also described a "dude" (in the parlance of Dudeism) very well. According to Zhuangzi, a dude's


...mind is free from all thoughts.

...demeanor is still and silent.

...forehead beams with simplicity.

...is cold as autumn, and warm as spring, for his (or her) joy and anger occur as naturally as the four seasons.

[DigitalBuddha]

I myself once dabbled in pacifism, not in Nam of course..........



Dude, I think Chuang-tzu has definitely hit on some tenants of dudeism. Far fucking out.

[Dude1967]

I myself once dabbled in pacifism, not in Nam of course..........



Dude, I think Chuang-tzu has definitely hit on some tenants of dudeism. Far fucking out.

dabbling can be a natural, zesty enterprise, in the parlance of our times, but no matter how you spell his name, you'd have to say he was a Dude.

[digbys kid]

Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu were The Dude and Walter of ancient China.  If the Chinamen had listen to them rather than to The Big Confucius, they wouldn't be the uptight rug-peers they are today.