- Accidentals, 162
- Achilles and the Tortoise, 453
- Action, 5, 266, 293
- Affirmative and Negative, 17
- Aggression, 340
- Ai, Duke, 62, 268, 429
- Ai Fêng, 29
- Ai T'ai T'o, 62
- All-in-extremes, 276
- Alternation theory, 18
- Anger, 310
- Ants and Mutton, 330
- Apricot Altar, 413
- Archery, 60, 255, 272, 308, 309, 318
- Argument, Futility of, 30
- Arms, Appeal to, 162
- Arms, Men of, 318
- Artificial, The, 147, 175, 210, 232, 309
- Augur and the pigs, The Grand, 236
- Balancing balls, 233
- Bantams, 297
- Battered but not Bruised, 80
- Battering-ram, 207
- Battle, The Six Plans of, 313
- Beauty, 182, 260, 337
- Bells, Chime of, 250
- Bird, The strange, 258
- Bishop-wort, 313
- Black Forest, The, 413
- Black Water, The, 276
- Blades from Kan, 193
- Boats, 75, 249, 295
- Body, The human, 15;
- (without body) 145
- Body and soul parted, 12, 324
- Bogy, A, 236
- Books, 170
- Boots, (for the toeless) 63;
- (outside door) 368, 424
- Border-warden, The, 141
- Breathing from the heels, 69
- Business, 133
- Butcher, The faithful, 376
- Butterfly, Chuang Tzŭ a, 32
- Canon of Confucianism, 166, 188, 312, 438, 439
- Cataract, A, 238
- Caterpillars, 297
- Cats, 312;
- (wild) 10
- Centipede, The, 211
- Ceremonial, 89, 108, 121, 133, 162, 195, 277, 318, 440
- Chance, 350
- Chan Tzŭ, 380
- Ch'ang Chi, 56
- Chang Hung, 112
- Ch'ang Hung, 352
- Chang I, 235
- Chang Jo, 316
- Chang Wu Tzŭ, 28
- Ch'ang Yü, 316
- Chao Hsi, 373
- Chao Wên, 22
- Chapped hands, Salve for, 9
- Charioteering, 241
- Charity, 88, 100, 101, 108, 114, 122, 133, 277, 307
- Chê, Robber, 103, 112, 120, 155, 387
- Ch'êns and Ts'ais, 180, 251, 253, 255, 380
- Chê-yang, The, 154
- Ch'êng, 281
- Chêng K'ao Fu, 431
- Chêng State, The, 59, 94
- Ch'i, Mt., 372
- Ch'i Kung, 261
- Ch'i State, The, 50, 65, 110
- Ch'i-yang, 384
- Chi Ch'ê, 145, 146
- Chi-yung, 331
- Chi T'o, 72, 361
- Chi Tzŭ (1) 72, 352;
- (2) 339
- Chi Chên, 350
- Chi Ch'ih, 442
- Chi Chü, 45
- Chi Hsing Tzŭ, 238
- Chi Han, Magician, 94
- Chiang Lü Mien, 145, 146
- Chieh, 40, 119, 383
- Chieh-kêng, 331
- Chieh Tzŭ, 350
- Chieh Yü, 7, 55, 92
- Chien Ho, 353
- Chien Wu, 6, 77, 92, 273
- Chih, 206
- Ch'ih Chang Man Chi, 152
- Ch'ih Chi, 207
- Chih-ho, 354
- Chih Kung, 401
- Ch'ih Yu, 392
- Children, 299, 300, 301, 358
- Chin, Duke of, 29
- Chin State, The, 147
- Ch'in Hua Li, 440
- Ch'in Lao, 342
- Chin-shao, The, 226, 244
- Ch'in Shih, 36
- Ch'in State, The, 368
- Ch'ing, Carpenter, 240
- Ch'ing-ning, The, 228
- Ching-shih, 53
- Ching Shou, The, 33
- Ch'iu (Confucius), 145, 189
- Chiu Fang Yin, 327
- Ch'iu-shih, 426
- Chiu-yu, The, 228
- Chŏ-lu, 392
- Chou, 40
- Chou, River, 383
- Chou Kung, 181, 384
- Chrysalis, 3
- Chu Hsien, 234
- Chu Yung, 116
- Ch'u State, The, 3 et alt. pass.
- Chuan Hsü, 77
- Chuang, Duke, 241
- Chuang Tzŭ, 9,
- (and the butterfly) 32; 66, 137, 159, 215, 216,
- (asked to take office) 217, 434,
- (and the fishes) 218,
- (death of wife) 223,
- (and the skull) 224,
- (and the geese) 245; 254, 258, 268,
- (and Tao) 285, 318,
- (at Hui Tzŭ's grave) 321,
- (and the stickleback) 353,
- (and the useless) 358,
- (on Confucius) 365; 407, 427,
- (death of) 434,
- (his genius) 449
- Chui, 115, 242
- Chun Mang, 150
- Chung, 332
- Chung Yang, 116
- Chü Ch'iao, 28
- Chü Liang, 88
- Chü Poh Yü, 49, 345
- Ch'ü-to, 228
- Chü Tzŭ, 442
- Chü Tzŭ, Mt., 316
- Chü Yüan, 50
- Cicadas, 2, 258, 306,
- (catching) 232
- Class distinctions, 187
- Classification, 168
- Clouds and rain, 165, 173
- Cocks and dogs, 117, 350
- Cock-fighting, 238
- Coffins, 53, 441
- Cold, Latent, 319
- Colossal, The, 204
- Colour Sense, The, 99, 108, 115, 121, 155
- Common-places, 154
- Complacency, 402
- Concentration, 34, 240, 300
- Conditioned, The, 158
- Confucius, 28, 38, 45, 55, 56,
- (and the leper) 62, 83,
- (and Lao Tzŭ) 144, 166, 182, 184, 188, 266, 282; 149, 179, 182, 201,
- (in danger) 213, 251; 225,
- (on concentration) 232, 235,
- (at the cataract) 238; 253, 255, 263, 272, 274, 282, 290, 291, 325, 338, 341, 346,
- (and Lao Lai Tzŭ) 356;
- (changed his opinions) 365; 366,
- (and Robber Chê) 387; 429
- Conscription, 54
- Cooks, 6, 33, 104
- Correlatives, 207, 208
- Corpse, (boy who impersonates) 6, 97;
- (singing near a) 83
- Cunning, 315
- Crane's legs, A, 101, 332
- Criteria (of our minds), 16,
- (of Confucius), 166
- Dark, Seeing in the, 139
- Dark Palace, The, 77
- Dark-Steep Mt., The, 276
- Death. See Life and Death.
- Death of Chuang Tzŭ's wife, 223
- Destiny, 46, 64, 74, 90, 143, 189, 258
- Determinate relations, 332
- Dialecticians, 318
- Dimensions, 202
- Discontent, 402
- Discord and accord, 320
- Distance relative, 2
- Diversity, 331
- Divination, 357
- Divine Man, 7, 85, 151, 193, 331, 361
- Divine Teacher, The, 317
- Do-nothing Say-nothing, 276
- Doctrine of Silence, 56
- Dogs, (straw) 180,
- (how to judge of) 312, 327,
- (why they bark) 350
- Dog-tooth violet, 228
- Doorkeepers, 320, 329
- Doubts, 102, 117, 244, 334
- Dove, young, 2, 306
- Dragon, Lao Tzŭ a, 185
- Dragons, 214, 263
- Dragon-power, 122, 185
- Dream, Life a, 30, 86
- Dreamless sleep, 82, 192
- Dregs of knowledge, 172
- Drugs, 299, 331
- Drunken man, A, 232
- Duck's legs, A, 101
- Duckweed, 228
- Dust-bin, Spirit of the, 237
- Duty, 46, 88, 101, 108, 114, 121, 122, 133, 166, 277, 298, 307, 367, 433
- Dying, No advantage in not, 15
- Ear, The, 333
- Earth, 161, 173, 223;
- (music of) 12
- Eel's habitat, The, 27, 295
- Ego, Whence the, 14
- Emotions, 308
- Empyrean, The, 288
- Energy, Hu Tzŭ shows his internal, 96
- Enthusiasts, 330
- Essentials, 162
- Evil speakers, 39
- Excalibur, 82, 303
- Exhaling and inhaling, 191
- Existence and non-existence, 206, 304
- External, The, 49, 82, 103, 156, 235, 299, 302, 310, 315
- Extremes meet, 115
- Eye, The, 211, 333
- Fa Yen, The, 47
- Failure, Causes of, 432
- Fallacia amphiboliæ, 275
- Fame or Reputation, 5, 103
- Fan, Prince of, 275
- Fang Ming, 316
- Fasting, 42, 43, 282
- Father praising son, 363
- Fên-yang, 8
- Fêng Mêng, 255
- Fighting, 207, 315
- Fighting-cocks, 238
- Filial piety, 153, 175, 186, 361
- Finger, 19
- Fire eternal, 37
- Fire Spirit, The, 237
- Fire, Production of, 353
- First Cause, 246, 267
- Fisherman, 357
- Fishes, 114, 174, 185, 295, 296, 331, 354;
- happiness of, 218
- Fish-hawks, 189
- Five Bonds, The, 399
- Five Princes, 78
- Five Rulers, The, 186, 202
- Flattery, 153
- Fools, 154
- Foot, The, 333
- Foot-prints, 188
- Footsteps, Afraid of his, 418
- Forgetfulness, 65
- Form, 144, 297
- Forms and Name, 163
- Four Seas, The, 123, 151, 202
- Foxes, 247, 295
- Friendship, 253
- Frog of the Well, 201, 215
- Fu Hsi, 45, 77, 116, 196, 274
- Fu Yüeh, 78
- Fulness and decay, 203, 287
- Gain, 103
- Gambling, 234
- Geese, 297
- Gentleness, 123
- Glow-worm, 228
- Glue, Sticking without, 102
- God, 1, 15, 31, 68, 82, 163, 257, 282, 301, 333
- Goitre, A large, 65
- Golden Age, 116, 152
- Golden Roster, 313
- Goose, The cackling, 245
- Gourd, Five-bushel, 9
- Government, (a curse) 92; 107, 114, 119, 123, 130, 132, 146;
- (by the true Sage) 151; 163, 164, 186, 187, 317
- Grand Augur, The, 236
- Grand Tutor, 272
- Grave, Opening a, 355
- Great Bear, The, 77
- Great truths, 154
- Great Yü, The, 16, 142, 152, 215, 254
- Grief, Real, 85
- Han-ch'ih, The, 176
- Han-tan, 216, 217;
- (siege of) 113
- Han-yin, 147
- Happiness, (in inaction) 158, 159,
- (elements of) 220, 405,
- (of fishes) 218,
- (and sorrow) 199, 221
- Hard and White, The, 22, 67, 100, 117
- Hê Hsü, 116
- Hearing, Sense of, 99, 104, 115, 121, 311, 333, 359
- Heart, Natural goodness of, 123,
- (the seat of intellect) 297
- Heat, Latent, 319
- Heaven, 161, 173, 223
- Hermaphrodites, 189
- Heron, 366
- Ho Hsü, 109
- Ho-shang, 434
- Horses, 19, 106, 209, 228, 285, 312, 316, 347
- Hou I or Yi, 60, 255, 308, 309, 319
- House, A, 306
- Hsi P'êng, 316, 322
- Hsi Shih knits her brows, 182
- Hsi Wang Mu, 78
- Hsi Wei, 76, 292, 346
- Hsi Wei Shih, 359
- Hsiang-ch'êng, 316
- Hsiang Li Ch'in, 442
- Hsiao Chi, 352
- Hsiao Poh (Duke Huan), 399
- Hsien of the Kung-wêns, 35
- Hsien-ch'ih, The, 227
- Hsien Yüan, 116
- Hsin, The, 237
- Hsü (butterflies), 228
- Hsü-aos, The, 26, 40
- Hsü Wu Kuei, 311
- Hsü Yu, 6, 87, 140, 329, 361, 382, 404, 432
- Hsü Yü Chi T'o, 73, 361
- Hu, 98
- Hu Pu Hsieh, 72
- Hu Tzŭ, 94
- Hua, 141;
- (Mt.) 443
- Hua Chi, 316
- Hua Lin, 207
- Hua Tzŭ, 339
- Huan (Confucianist), 426
- Huan of Ch'i, Duke, 65, 170, 236, 322, 399
- Huan Tou, 124
- Huan T'uan, 453
- Huang-chung, 100
- Huang-hua, The, 154
- Huang-k'uang, The, 228
- Huang Liao, 453
- Huang Ti. See Yellow Emperor
- Huang Tzŭ Kao Ngao, 236
- Hui, Prince, 33, (of Wei) 338
- Hui Tzŭ, 8, 66, 217, 218, 223, 318, 321, 341, 358, 361, 365, 450
- Hunchbacks, 55, 65, 224, 232
- Hun Tun, 98
- I, Mt., 341
- I Chieh, 335
- I-êrh, The, 251
- I Êrh Tzŭ, 87
- I Liao, 247, 325, 342
- I-lu, 228
- I Yin, 309, 383
- Immunity of Drunkards, 232
- Inaction, 80, 97, 122, 131, 134, 136, 137, 158, 159, 160, 165, 222, 288, 308, 318
- Infinite, One with the, 89
- Infinitesimal, The, 204
- Influences, The Six, 129, 174
- Instincts, 107
- Intelligence, 139
- Internal, The, 49, 122, 156, 235, 299, 302, 310, 315
- Intrinsicality, 102
- Irrigation, 147
- Jen, 251
- Jen Ch'iu, 290
- Jen Hsiang Shih, 337
- Jen Kung Tzŭ, 354
- Jih Chung Shih, 92
- Joy and sorrow, 293
- Kan, Blades from, 193
- Kan-yü-ku, 228
- Kao, 237
- Kêng Sang Ch'u, 294
- Kings, The Three, 186
- Knotted Cords, 116
- Knowledge, (Great) 13;
- (of the ancients) 21, 161, 304;
- (limit to) 302;
- (perfection of) 333;
- (a curse) 115, 118, 125, 129, 298;
- (from repose) 195;
- (shallowness of) 293;
- (personified) 276;
- (of the wherefore) 368
- Kou Chien, 332
- Ku, Shepherd, 103
- K'u Huo, 442
- Ku-tu, 384
- Ku-chüeh, Mt., 276
- Kuan Chung, 226, 236, 322, 399
- Kuan Lung Fêng, 40, 112, 352
- Kuan Yin, 230, 447
- K'uang, 213
- Kuang Ch'êng Tzŭ, 125
- K'uang Tzŭ, 401
- Kuei, 206
- K'uei, The, 237
- Kueis, The, 26
- Kuei-ch'i, 332
- Kuei Chi, 354
- K'un, 327
- K'un Hun, 316
- K'un-lun Mountains, 139, 224, 289
- Kung Ch'ui the artisan, 115, 242
- Kung Poh, 382
- K'ung-t'ung, 126
- Kung Sun Lung, 214, 319, 453
- Kung Tzŭ Mou, 215
- Kung Yüeh Hsiu, 335
- Kuo, men of, 253
- Laggards, Whipping up the, 234
- Language, The best, 293
- Lao Lai Tzŭ, 356
- Lao Lung Chi, 287
- Lao Tzŭ (and No-toes), 61; 93, 123, 137, 142;
- (and Confucius) 144, 166; 168, 169, 182, 184, 266, 282;
- (and Kêng Sang Ch'u) 294;
- (and Nan Yung), 298;
- (and Poh Chü) 343;
- (and Yang Tzŭ Chü) 368;
- (death of) 36
- Law, The, 133, 162;
- (men of), 318
- Laws of Nature, 135
- Lei T'ing, 237
- Leopard, The, 228, 247
- Leper, A, 62
- Leviathan, The, 1, 3
- Li, 237
- Li to a mile, Three, 2
- Li Chi, 27, 29
- Li Chu, 104, 115
- Li Hsü, 116
- Li Lu, 116
- Li tree, Sacred, 50
- Liang, City of, 341
- Liang State, The, 218
- Liao, River, 93
- Liberty, 36, 37
- Lichen, 228
- Lieh Tzŭ (his supernatural power) 4,
- (and the magician) 94,
- (and the skull) 227,
- (and the perfect man) 230,
- (and archery) 272,
- (declines food) 375; 423
- Lien Shu, 6
- Life (art of) 234;
- (and death) 203, 229, 291, 305;
- (a tumour) 84;
- (transitory) 209, 285
- Light (personified) 289,
- (of Nature) 19
- Likes and dislikes, 155, 156, 366
- Like and the Unlike, The, 100, 117
- Lin Chü, 259
- Lin Hsia Chi, 387
- Lin Hui, 253
- Ling of Chou, Prince, 112
- Ling of Wei, Prince, 49, 65, 250, 346
- Lo Book, The, 174
- Long life, 141
- Love for the people, 314, 329
- Lu Chü, 319
- Lu State, The, 56, 113, 145, et alt. pass.
- Lu T'ung, 7
- Lun Yü, The, 382
- Lung Fêng, 40, 112, 352
- Lutes, The two, 319
- Lü-liang, Cataract at, 238
- Magic Circle, The, 400
- Man (not a free agent) 145,
- (origin of) 228,
- (pre-eminent) 231
- Mang-ts'ang, 2
- Mankind, 133
- Man Kou Tê, 397
- Mantis, The praying, 49, 258
- Mao Ch'iang, 27
- Map-making, 270
- Matter, 133
- Measures, 114, 115
- Mechanical, The, 147
- Mên Wu Kuei, 152
- Mên Yin Têng Hêng, 338
- Mêng Sun Ts'ai, 85
- Mêng Tzŭ Fan, 83
- Mental criteria, 16
- Mental equilibrium, 160
- Metempsychosis, 32
- Methusaleh, A Chinese, 3
- Miao-ku-shê Mountain, 7, 8
- Middle Kingdom, The, 202, 262, 269, 284
- Mih Tzŭ, 17, 100, 116, 155, 292;
- (his works and doctrines) 440
- Min Tzŭ, 65
- Mind, The, (without body) 145, 211, 264, 333;
- (function of) 97, 360
- Minister of War, 290
- Mirror, The mind a, 97,
- (mankind a) 337
- Modification, Physical and moral, 292
- Monkeys, 20, 27, 145, 181, 255, 323
- Monkey Mountain, The, 323
- Moon, The, 29, 165, 173
- Moses, Burial of, 435
- Mosquitoes, 184, 366
- Motes in sunbeam, 1
- Mother-in-law and wife, 360
- Mou of Chung-shan, Prince, 380
- Mou of Wei, 214
- Mou-jui, The, 228
- Mourning, 162, 186
- Mu of Ch'in, Duke, 309
- Mud spirit, The, 237
- Muh Wang, 207
- Mulberry Grove, The, 33
- Murder, Origin of, 296
- Music and Ceremonial, 89, 100, 108, 115, 155, 162, 177, 195, 318, 440
- Music of Heaven, 12, 13, 178
- Mutilation, 35, 56, 59, 61, 320, 329
- Mutton and Ants, 330
- Names, 163
- Nameless, The, 143
- Nan Po Tzŭ K'uei, 78
- Nan-yüeh, 248
- Nan Yung Ch'u, 296
- Nature, 189, 303;
- (habit second) 239
- Natural, The, 102, 131, 144, 175, 210, 232, 309
- Necessity, 310
- Negative, Positive and, 120, 127, 266, 349
- Negative quantity, The Sage a, 192
- Neglect better than care, 74
- Nest-builders, The, 391
- Nincompoops, 330
- Nightmare, 180
- No-beginning, 288
- No-Toes, 61
- Non-existence, Domain of, 11
- Nose, Scab on the, 321
- Nothing, (as an existence) 23;
- (its success) 139, 143, 289
- Nü Shang, 311
- Nü Yü, 78
- O Ho Kan, 287
- Objective, The, 17, 18, 145
- Obstinacy, 360
- Office, Value of, 198, 434
- Officials, 221
- ONE, All things, 23, 73, 89, 128, 136, 143, 250, 278, 281, 303, 333, 336;
- (the Greater and Lesser) 450
- One-legged men, 224, 309
- Owl's sight, An, 207, 332
- P'ang Huan, 237
- Pao Chiao, 394, 401
- Pao Yü, 322
- Parasites, 330
- Passions, 66, 311
- Passivity, 97, 138, 165, 192, 266
- Patriots, 208, 221
- Peace, Men of, 318
- Pearl in corpse's mouth, 355
- Pecks and bushels, 114
- P'ei, 368
- Pei I, 140
- Pei Jen Wu Tsê, 382
- Pei Kung Shê, 250
- Pei Mên Ch'êng, 176
- P'ei O, 237
- P'êng Mêng, 445
- P'êng Tsu, 3, 78
- Penumbra and Umbra, 32, 367
- Perfect ambition, honour, &c., 176
- Perfect Man, The, 27, 97, 146, 151, 169, 183, 210, 231, 295, 301, 359
- Perfect music, 177
- Personality, Man's, 87
- Physical life, 230
- P'i I, 281
- Pi Kan, 40, 112, 352, 395
- Piao Shih, 255
- Pien Ch'ing Tzŭ, 242
- Pien Sui, 383
- Pigs, 236, 286, 330
- Pin, 371
- Ping, 319
- P'ing I, 77
- Plains, Slopes and, 208
- Ploughing, 342
- Po Li Ch'i, 270, 309
- Poh Ch'ang Ch'ien, 346
- Poh Ch'êng Tzŭ Kao, 142
- Poh Chü, 343
- Poh Huang, 116
- Poh Hun Wu Jen, 59, 272, 423
- Poh I, 72, 103, 201, 384, 394
- Poh Kung, 207
- Poh Loh, 106
- Politeness, Perfect, 307
- Portal of God, 304
- Positive and Negative, 120, 127, 205, 266, 349
- Precedence, 162
- Predestination, 350
- Predicables, Eight, 24
- Prometheus, A Chinese, 196
- Provident, The, 392
- P'u I Tzŭ, 91
- Pu Liang I, 79
- Punishments, 124, 162
- Pure Man, The, 69, 72, (a) 313
- Purity, Absolute, 127
- Purpose, Discard, 307
- Quail, 4
- Rain, 165, 173
- Rarey, A Chinese, 106
- Rat's liver, 82
- Raven, Blackness of, 185
- Record of Marvels, The, 1, 4
- Red Lake, The, 139
- Relations determinate, &c., 332
- Relativity, (of Distance) 2,
- (of Time) 3
- Repose, 127, 157, 158, 195
- Reputation, 5, 360
- Retired scholars, 197
- Rewards and Punishments, 162
- Rhinoceros, 214
- Rice-pudding, Grains in a, 296
- Riches, 141
- Right and Wrong, 244, 306, 345, 366
- Rings, Joined, 451
- River God, 53, 200, 357
- Rivers perennial, 332
- Robber Chê, 103, 112, 120, 155, 387
- Robbers v. Sages, 113
- Robbery, Origin of, 296
- Round Squareness, 25
- Rukh, The, 1, 3
- Rule of life, 84
- Ruler, The Wise, 161
- Rulers (of old) 344,
- (the Five) 186
- Rustic, The sick, 299
- Sacrifices, 6, 53, 305
- Sacrificial caps, 8
- Sage, The True, 146, 192, 326, 336
- Sages a curse, 108, 113, 117, 125
- Salve for chapped hands, 9
- San Ching, 377
- San-miao, 124
- San-wei, 124
- Sang Hu, 83, 253, 254
- Scales and Steelyards, 114
- Schemes, 317, 360
- Scholars' robes, 269
- Sciolist, The, 164
- Sea-bird, Arrival of a, 226, 244
- Sea-serpents, 214
- Seasons, The, 162, 165, 348
- Secret of existence, 280
- Self, 5, 145
- Senses, The, 20, 99, 100, 155, 311, 343
- Sha-ch'iu, 346
- Shadow, Afraid of his, 418
- Shadow, Man and his, 332
- San Chüan, 371, 404
- Shan Pao, 235
- Shang Mountain, 52
- Shang-shên Rapid, The, 233
- Shao Chih, 347
- Shao Kuang, 78
- Shê, Duke of, 45
- Shên Nung, 116, 196, 226, 246, 287, 385
- Shên T'u Chia, 59
- Shên T'u Ti, 72, 394
- Shên Yao, 443
- Shih Ch'êng Chi, 168
- Shih Chin, 179
- Shih Ch'iu, 346
- Shih-hu, 371
- Shih K'uang, 22, 100, 104, 115
- Shih-ling, 331
- Shih-nan, 247, 325, 342
- Shih Yü, 100, 116, 120, 155
- Shou (Prince of Yüeh), 373
- Shou-ling, The youth of, 216
- Shou-yang, Mt., 103, 385
- Shu, 98, 352
- Shu Ch'i, 72, 384, 394
- Shu Shan No-toes, 61
- Shu Tan (Chou Kung), 384
- Shun, The Emperor, 5 et alt. pass.
- Sight, Sense of, (its failure) 139; 311, 359
- Silence, Doctrine of, 56, 293, 325
- Sincerity, Cultivation of, 316
- Singing alongside a corpse, 83
- Six Influences, The, 129, 174
- Six Ranks, The, 399
- Skull (Chuang Tzŭ and the) 224;
- (Lieh Tzŭ and the) 227
- Sky, The, 173
- Slopes and plains, 208
- Smell, Sense of, 155, 360
- Snake, The (moves without legs) 211;
- (its shoulders) 82
- Snail, The, 340
- Snow-goose, Whiteness of, 185
- Society, 347
- Sons, 141
- Soot, Life as mere, 305
- Sophistry, 117;
- (of Hui Tzŭ) 451
- Sorrow, 199, 221, 293
- Soul, The, 14, 37, 57
- Soyer, A Chinese, 104
- Space, 202, 304, 340
- Speech, (Great) 13;
- (not mere breath) 16, 17, 22;
- (a surplus) 23;
- (like wind to wave) 47;
- (failure of) 139;
- (no room for) 264
- Spirit of the Clouds, 129
- " " Ocean, 200
- " " River, 200
- "Spring and Autumn," 24
- Square and Compasses, 101, 263
- Ssŭ-mi, The, 228
- Standard of right, 306
- Standards must be absolute, 436
- Stars, The, 167
- Stealing purses, 114;
- (States) 114
- Stickleback, Chuang Tzŭ and the, 353
- Stoat, The, 313
- Stone-mason's skill, A, 321
- Straight-browed people, The, 150
- Straw dog, The, 179
- Strength of no avail, 139
- Stupidity, 360
- Su, Hunchback, 55
- Subjective, The, 17, 18, 305, 306, 364
- Success, Causes of, 432
- Sui Jen, 196, 226
- Summum bonum, The, 155
- Sun and Moon, 29, 165, 167, 173, 243
- Sun Hsiu, 242
- Sun Hsiu Ao, 273, 325
- Sung Hsing, 443
- Sung State, The, 8, 9, 53
- Supreme Void, The, 289
- Swallow, Wisdom of the, 257
- Swords, Forging, 290;
- (the Three), 410
- Ta-lü, 100
- Ta T'ao, 346
- Ta T'ing, 116
- T'ai, Mt., 3, 77, 103
- Tai Chin Jen, 340
- T'ai Huang, 91
- T'ai Kung Tiao, 347
- T'ai Wang Shan Fu, 371
- Talkers, 327
- Tan-hsüeh, 373
- T'ang, The Emperor, 3, 207, 215, 292, 309, 361, 383
- Tao, 16;
- (axis of) 18, 24;
- (perfect) 25;
- (gives form) 75, 76, 79;
- (man born in) 85;
- (in everything) 112;
- (in abstraction) 127;
- (of God and man) 134, 135, 137, 138, 157, 163, 167;
- (capacity of) 169, 182, 197;
- (eternal) 209,
- (how to reach) 277, 281;
- (is everywhere) 285, 288, 303, 316
- (and Tê) 326;
- (functions of) 438;
- (and fatalism) 446
- T'ai Hsi Ching, The, 70
- Tao-Tê-Ching, The, 19, 34, 56, 71, 111, 115, 122, 125, 136, 143, 170, 172, 179, 205, 231, 243, 275, 277, 278, 300, 369, 448
- Tapir, The, 6
- Taste, Sense of, 155
- Tê (see Virtue), 45
- Teeth cold, 113
- Tell, A Chinese, 60, 255
- Têng Ling, 442
- Thieves, 110, 169
- Thieving, Art of, 112
- Things, 231
- Thoroughness, 342
- Thought, 170
- Three in the Morning, 20
- Three Dynasties, 101, 118, 120
- Three Princes, 124, 132, 186, 202
- Tiao-ling, 258
- T'ien Ch'êng Tzŭ, or T'ien Ho, 111, 324
- T'ien K'ai Chih, 234
- T'ien Kên, 93
- T'ien P'ien, 443
- Tigers, 174, 214, 263
- Time, 189, 202, 291, 304
- Tit, The, 6
- Toes, 305, 306
- Tongue, A three-foot, 326
- Topsy-turvydom, 199
- Tortoise, 3, 357;
- (Chuang Tzŭ and the) 217
- Translation (as of Enoch), 230
- Travelling, 180
- Trees Useless, 10, 51, 52, 245
- Tripe, 305
- Tsang, Old man of, 271
- Tsang, Shepherd, 103
- Ts'ang-wu, 354
- Ts'ao Shang, 428
- Tsê Yang, 335
- Tsêng Shên, 100, 116, 120, 155, 352, 366
- Tsêng Tzŭ, 378
- Ts'ui Chü, 123
- Tsun Lu, 116
- Tsung, Mt., 124
- Tsungs, The, 26
- Ts'ung-chih, 40
- Tung Kuo Shun Tzŭ, 261
- Tung Kuo Tzŭ, 285
- Tung Kuo Tzŭ Chi, 366
- Tung-t'ing, 176, 227
- Tung Yeh Chi, 241
- Turtle of eastern sea, 215, 296, 335
- Tzŭ Ch'an, 59
- Tzŭ Chang, 397
- Tzŭ Ch'i, 12, 52, 324, 327
- Tzŭ Ch'in Chang, 83
- Tzŭ Chou Chih Fu, 370
- Tzŭ Chou Chih Poh, 370
- Tzŭ Hsü or Wu Yüan, 112, 221, 352, 401
- Tzŭ Hua Tzŭ, 373
- Tzŭ Kao, 45
- Tzŭ Kung, 83, 147, 185, 225, 378, 381, 388, 413
- Tzŭ Lai, 81
- Tzŭ Lao, 342
- Tzŭ Li, 81
- Tzŭ Lu, 165, 231, 263, 342, 381;
- (death of) 393; 413
- Tzŭ Sang, 90
- Tzŭ Sang Hu, 83, 253, 254
- Tzŭ Ssŭ, 80
- Tzŭ Yang of Chêng, 375
- Tzŭ Yü, 80, 90
- Ugliness, 260
- Umbra and Penumbra, 32, 367
- Uncanny events, 328
- Unconditioned, The, 158, 209, 307
- Uniformity (of results), 186, 132, 227, 331
- Universe, The, 19, 29, 161, 167, 279, 290
- Universal Love, 167
- Untrodden ground, 333
- Useful and Useless, The, 11, 306, 358
- Usurpers, 208
- Valetudinarianism, 191
- Vengeance not extended against things, 232
- Violence, 340
- Virtue (Tê), 45, 133, 143, 151, 176, 185, 252, 277, 308, 326, 360
- Virtue, Man of Perfect, 210
- Vision (Eye and) 333;
- (perfection of) 104, 139
- Vital Principle, The, 129
- Wa Lung, 237
- Walrus, The, 211
- Wang Hsiang, 237
- Wang I, 26, 91, 140
- Wang Kuo, 335
- Wang T'ai, 56
- Wang Tzŭ, 395
- Wang Tzŭ Ch'ing Chi, 250
- War, 315, 318
- Wasps, 297
- Water, (Fluidity of) 268;
- (to men and fishes) 227
- Water-level, The, 64, 157
- Wealth, 221;
- (value of) 403;
- (evil of) 405
- Weasel, The, 313
- Weeding plants, 360
- Weeping, 162;
- (without snivelling) 85
- Wei, Prince of, 9, 38, 254, 338
- Wei, Prince Wu of, 311
- Wei, The State of, 38, 49
- Wei of Ch'i, Prince, 338
- Wei of Chou, Duke, 234
- Wei I, The, 237
- Wei-lei Mountains, 294
- Wei Shêng, 395, 401
- Weights and measures a curse, 114
- Well-sweep, A, 147, 181
- Wên of Wei, Prince, 261
- Wên Chung, 332
- Wên Po Hsüeh Tzŭ, 262
- Wên Wang, 273
- Wên Wang of Chao, 407
- Wheel of Existence, The, 228
- Wheelwright, The, 171
- Whole made up of parts, 347
- Wife, Mother-in-law and, 360
- Wigs, 152
- Wind, 173, 211, 332
- Wine, Thin, 113
- Winnowing, Chaff from, 184
- Wisdom a curse, 115, 121, 125, 188
- Wisdom-tricks, 111
- Without-end, 288
- Wolves, 174
- Words, 170, 171
- Wu, Prince of, 9, 323
- Wu Chuang, 88
- Wu Ch'un, Hunchback, 65
- Wu Han Chao, 173
- Wu Kuang, 72, 361, 383
- Wu Lai, 352
- Wu Ting, 78
- Wu-tsu, 228
- Wu Tzŭ Hsü, 395
- Wu Wang, 152, 207, 292, 384
- Wu Yoh, 400
- Wu Yüan, 112, 221, 352, 401
- Yak, The, 10
- Yang-ch'i, The, 228
- Yang Chu, 100, 116, 155, 259, 318
- Yang Hu, 214
- Yang Tzŭ Chü, 93, 368, 369
- Yao, The Emperor, 5, et alt. pass.
- Yeh Ch'üeh, 26, 91, 140, 281, 329
- Yellow Emperor, The, 28, 77, 123, 125, 139, 176, 196, 224, 246, 274, 277, 292, 316
- Yellow Spring, The, 358
- Yen Gate, The, 361
- Yen State, The, 329
- Yen Ch'êng Tzŭ Yu, 12, 324, 366, 441
- Yen ch'i, 410
- Yen Ho, 48, 241, 374, 429
- Yen Hui or Yen Yüan, 38, 85, 179, 225, 233, 256, 264, 272, 291, 379, 381, 388
- Yen Kang Tiao, 287
- Yen Pu I, 324
- Yi, 60, 255, 308, 309, 319
- Yi Yang, 237
- Yin, Mountain, 93
- Yin and Yang, The, 82, 120, 126, 177, 192, 201, 280
- Yin-li, 394
- Yin Wên, 443
- Ying, 451
- Ying, A man of, 321
- Ying-yang, 382
- Yü, The Great, 16, 142, 152, 215, 254
- Yü Ch'iang, 78
- Yü Ch'ieh, 357
- Yü Erh, 104
- Yu-hu, 40
- Yu island, 124
- Yu Piao, 179
- Yüan of Sung, Prince, 270, 321
- Yüan Fêng, 150
- Yüan Hsien, 378
- Yüeh State, The, 8, 9, 16, 313, 451
- Yung Ch'êng, 116
- Yung Ch'êng Shih, 338
About This Book
A collection of parables, dialogues, and allegories that develop a Daoist outlook through paradox, natural imagery, and playful skepticism. The text contrasts conventional moral and political norms with a philosophy of spontaneous, effortless action, emphasizes transformation and the relativity of opposites, and challenges reliance on fixed language and judgments. Chapters move between fable and reflective essay to critique social ambition and prescriptive doctrine while proposing simplicity, inner freedom, and attunement to nature's changing rhythms as a guide for ethical life and governance.