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The uncarved block is a symbol for the sage. Just as the uncarved block becomes vessels when it shatters so does the sage become the chief of the officials when he allows himself to be employed, and just as the uncarved block is ruined when it becomes useful, so does a sage become ruined when he becomes useful."
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.
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.
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”.
P’u is the Taoist principle that things are most powerful when they’re still unchanged from their simple, natural, original form. Since P’u literally means “uncut wood,” it is often translated in English as “the Uncarved Block.”
30 lis 2016 · If you have an ucarved block and you carve it into a spoon, then you have a spoon. But that spoon is worth less than the uncarved block because it is of one form whereas the uncarved block could be carved into a dragon.
Chinese: “simplicity”; literally, “unhewn wood” or “uncarved block”. Wade-Giles romanization: p’u. pu, in the Daodejing —a classic of Chinese philosophy, religion, and literature composed about 300 bce —the major metaphor for a state of accord with the spontaneous (ziran) unfolding of the cosmos.
