庄子: 天地有大美 Weekly Quote: Nature Has Great Beauty (Zhuang Zi)

[Gao, Shan]

Heaven and earth have their great beauties but do not speak of them; the four seasons have their clear-marked regularity but do not discuss it; the ten thousand things have their principles of growth but do not expound them. The sage seeks out the beauties of Heaven and earth and masters the principles of the ten thousand things. Thus it is that the Perfect Man does not act, the Great sage does not move-they have perveived [the Way of] Heaven and earth, we may say. (p. 236)

 

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, translated by Burton Watson

 

 

天地有大美而不言，四时有明法而不议，万物有成理而不说。圣人者，原天地之美而达万物之理，是故至人无为，大圣不作，观于天地之谓也。

庄子 《知北游》

 

 

[bidisha]

Thank you Shan, for this most beautiful quote.