“道通为一”:庄子之道的四通

Tao Connects Everything as a Whole--The Four Connections of Zhuangzi s Tao

阐述庄子之道的四通:道通形上与形下,庄子经常以具象的道路喻抽象的形上之道或言抽象的形上之道时把具象的道路的基本含义隐含其中;道通生与死,庄子热爱生命,但更热爱的是人的精神生命--道“性”;道通材不材、用无用,只有顺应自然而然的大道才是人类真正的归属;道通自然属性与社会属性,即庄子以“自然”之道极力超越人的社会属性和自然属性。

This paper elaborates the four connections of Zhuangzi’s Tao as follows: Firstly, Tao connects metaphysics and physics--the concrete road is often metaphorized as the abstract metaphysical way,or the basic meaning of the concrete road is implied in the abstract metaphysical way by Zhuangzi. Secondly,Tao connects life and death. Zhuangzi is a lover of life,but what he loves more is the spiritual life of human beings--the nature of Tao. Thirdly,Tao connects being talented and untalented,and being useful and useless. Only the way( Tao) that conforms to Nature is where man belongs. Fourthly, Zhuangzi connects natural attribute and social attribute.Namely,He does all his best to go beyond the social and natural attributes of human beings by the way of Nature.