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25 cze 2019 · The Taoist concept of Pu points to perception without prejudice, i.e. beyond dualistic distinctions such as right/wrong, good/bad, black/white, beautiful/ugly. It is a state of mental unity which places the Taoist practitioner into alignment with the Tao.
Find the row for uncarved block, find the chapters that mention it, and then find the other topics that are mentioned in connection with it. The word for "carving" is 制 zhì, which literally means to cut something out (with a saw, with scissors, etc.).
Uncarved Block (“p’u”) refers to something in its natural state. It infers that things in their own simplicity, by way of their essential nature, contain their own natural power. How does one reach their natural self? By loosening the holds of artificiality. And how is that done?
The "uncarved block" in front of an artisan is already worked because you have to select and saw a tree and work it to a block. "Unworked wood" is like fallen trees, trunks lying on the ground, uprooted by a storm.
10 mar 2023 · In Tao Te Ching, the seminal ancient text of Taoism, there is a concept called the Uncarved Block. The phrase appears eight times in the text and refers to a person’s natural state. Translated from the Chinese character “pǔ” (pronounced like Winnie the “ Pooh ”), it can be defined as the following: unworked wood.
29 maj 2013 · There is a concept in Chinese Taoism called pu 樸, the uncarved block. The common image is of a block of stone in its rough, natural state, untouched by human hands.
23 paź 2014 · They are correct that P’u is one of the highest principles of Taoism and that it is referring to a state that everything had, should have and can return to. The problem arises with the translation of P’u as the “uncarved block”.
