SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

transformation

  • Chapter 5. The Great Ancestral Master (Dazongshi)

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    This Zhuangzi ‑ Dazongshi excerpt portrays the ideal True Man. Through fables and dialogues, it expounds unity with the Dao, accepting life‑death transformation, and the core spiritual practice “sitting and forgetting”.

  • Catching the Fox

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    From *Liaozhai*, this light‑toned tale tells of fearless Old Man Sun catching a shape‑shifting fox‑spirit that causes sleep paralysis. The fox shrinks and swells its body, then mysteriously slips away before he can kill it.

  • Mencius – Chapter 13.13

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    Mencius contrasts hegemonic rule’s superficial joy with kingly governance’s inner peace. Under true kingship, people accept penalties and blessings without gratitude or resentment. Gentlemen’s virtue transforms society naturally, aligned with cosmic order.

  • Prelude to Water Melody – Return to Jinggang Mountain [Mao’s Poems]

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    –Mao Zedong, May 1965 Long have I cherished ambitions soaring high;Now I climb Jinggang Mountain once again, nigh.A thousand miles to seek the old haunt, I hie;Its old face changed, with fresh charms it’s graced by.

  • Two Seven-Character Octaves – Sending Off the God of Plague [Mao’s Poems]

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    –Mao Zedong, July 1, 1958 PrefaceReading People’s Daily (June 30): Yujiang County has eradicated schistosomiasis.My thoughts soar; I cannot sleep.Soft breeze caresses; rising sun gilds the window.Gazing south, I joyfully take up my brush.

  • Riverview Fairy – To Comrade Ding Ling [Mao’s Poems]

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    –Mao Zedong, December 1936 Red flags on walls in sunset glow,West winds sweep o’er the lone fort’s brow.Bao’an sees new faces all around.In cave-halls feasts abound,For one just freed from prison’s bound.

  • Caigentan 79. Beware the inner and outer thieves

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    The ears can hear flattering sounds; the eyes can be dazzled by silver and gold. These effects are enemies encroaching from without, whereas carnal desires are robbers hidden within.

  • The Theft of a Peach

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    When young I went to the prefectural seat to take an examination and happened to be there on Spring Festival. According to custom, on the eve of this day all the shopkeepers decorated their storefronts and organized a musical procession that went through town to the yamen of the provincial treasury. This was called…

  • The revelation of the garment from Immortal Ziyang

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    In Journey to the West, upon learning that the Golden Sage Palace Queen had been abducted by Jupiter’s Rival, Immortal Ziyang (Zhang Boduan) gifted her a magical garment, swiftly safeguarding her purity against defilement.