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Key Takeaway: Stillness (静, jing) is a Taoist discipline of quieting and observing change.
Stillness (静, jing) is a Taoist discipline of quieting and observing change. In the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16, stillness is paired with emptiness and with watching the ten thousand things return to their root; in the Zhuangzi, zuowang describes a related loosening of bodily and sensory fixation. • Each thing returns to its root • Clarity and stillness are the correct path • Even difficulty can become material for virtue.
Across multiple wisdom traditions, insights from both Eastern and Western philosophy converge on this point: Stillness (静, jing) is a Taoist discipline of quieting and observing change.
— Oriens
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In the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16, stillness is paired with emptiness and with watching the ten thousand things return to their root; in the Zhuangzi, zuowang describes a related loosening of bodily and sensory fixation..