庄子“不言之辩”考绎

Expounding Zhuang Tzu's " Speechless Assertion" of Tao

一如老子喻示非可道之“道”必致称举“不言之教”（《老子》二章、四十三章），庄子以其对信守中的“不道之道”不能不有所申说而终至于诉诸“不言之辩”（《庄子·齐物论》）。“辩”隐示着别一种言，“不言之辩”即不言之言，亦即以不言为言，或与所谓“为无为，事无事，味无味”（《老子》六十三章）意趣略通之“言无言”（《庄子·寓言》）。

By means of a careful re-interpretation of some parables presented in Zhuang Tzu,this paper manages to expound the profound purport of the so-called 'speechless assertion' made by Zhuang Tzu to illustrate 'the unspeakable Tao'.It points out that the crucial point to understand Zhuang Tzu's 'speechless assertion' lies in realizing the unspeakable intuition of Tao through one's own spiritual practice,and in doing so,it also carries out a deep reflection upon Zhuang Tzu's doctrine of Tao,which suffers from an inner cleft manifested in its viewpoint of language.