The butterfly as companion : meditations on the first three chapters of the Chuang Tzu /
Kuang-ming Wu.
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1990.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 509 pages).
- SUNY series in religion and philosophy .
- SUNY series in religion and philosophy. .
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographies references (pages 451-458).
Prologue: Companion to the butterfly -- Preliminary meditations -- Invitation by a butterfly -- Why companion, not commentary -- Conversation with a roadside skull -- The poetic Chuang Tzu -- Chapter 1: Hsiao Yao Yu: soaring -- and roaming -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditation -- three readings -- The stories -- Roaming, laughing -- A close look -- Chapter 2: Ch'i Wu Lun: things, theories -- sorting themselves out -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- four readings -- Survey -- A detailed look -- What all this means -- Philosophy and "things even-ing themselves out" -- Chapter 3: Yang Sheng Chu: nourishing life -- its inner principle -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- three readings -- Coherence and interrelations -- Segments and words -- Our understanding of the message -- Epilogue: The butterfly as companion -- Inconclusive meditations -- Meaning -- Irony -- Play -- "Companion."