"free And Easy Wandering" In The Twenty-first Century: Zhuang Zi's Methodology Of Philosophical Counseling

Philosophy and Culture 31 (1):67-88 (2004)
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Philosophical counseling is a practical philosophy, designed to provide practical guidance on life issues, helping to more positive way forward to see the world; to assist each person in the way of philosophy to help themselves and get their own best strategy, into a balanced, peaceful state. Philosophical counseling can be applied in many different fields, and problems with the guidance of real-life effect. For example, in the face of marriage counseling, life and death, career consultant, the development of self-respect, self-identified issues, religious or spiritual issues, and problems of life, interpersonal relationships between the issues. This paper will focus on philosophical counseling methods used in philosophy of Chuang Tzu, Chuang Tzu's philosophy is to explore consultative approach. Within seven to Chuang Tzu by the main, was significantly humorist Chuang of Chinese philosophy, the philosophy of how to help others with its allegorical? World in the face of complex, many people are facing hardship and worry, Zhuang Zi provide those prescription? People can view our own lives, and laughing all life. Although living in the injury burden, conflicting interests of the North deep darkness, still with a new open Kuo attitude toward life, to live out the ideal light Gongming S. offerings throughout the domain. Chuang-tzu's wisdom insight to help transform the world view of life, improve the quality of life, to lead a material life, and filled with joy and comfort of the philosophical temperament, making the overall physical and mental harmony with nature can, and maintain a dynamic balance. Zhuangzi's grief ingots, to help others break the inertia of thinking, open window of heart atresia, which is when any part of disorder, they should again get a new balance, life also timely turn the corner. Contained herein greatly improves the quality of life, and joy and comfort to the lives of themselves freely. Philosophical counseling is a philosophy in practice, meant to offer practical directions about life and help people look at the world from a more positive standpoint through assisting people to help themselves in a philosophical way, obtain the best strategy of their own, and enter a balanced and peaceful state of mind. Philosophical counseling can be applied in different fields and work as guides to real life in terms of marriage counseling, issues of life and death, career counseling, development of self-respect, issues of self-identity, religious sand spiritual questions, issues about life and being, and interpersonal relationships. This paper focuses on applying the methodology of philosophical counseling to Zhuang Zi's philosophy and exploring his methods of philosophical counseling. Based on the First Seven Chapters of Zhuang Zi, we show how the master of humor in Chinese philosophy helped people with his allegorical philosophy. In the complicated world with various problems, what are Zhugan Zi's suggestions for us to examine our own lives and look at life from a free and easy perspective? Though living in the dark world of harms and complicated interests, we could still realize an ideal way of life with a new attitude toward the world. Zhuang Zi's wisdom and insight help people look at life from a different perspective, improve the quality of living, and lead meaningful lives; besides, the free and easy philosophical disposition makes the body and the soul sustain in harmony and dynamic balance. Zhuang Zi's humorous thought helps people break away with their habitual thinking and open their minds, that is, restore the balance and turn our life into anew direction when anything is out of joint, whereby the quality of life can be improved and the free and easy state of mind can be reached

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