Extreme Pleasure-A Brief Study On Chuang Tzu’s Philosophy

Pleasure is what we human pursuit, and secular people pursuit secular pleasure. But Chuang Tzu rejected the secular pleasure of the color acoustic enjoyment and the wealth and good life. He thought secular pleasure can not meet the mind and body.Thus he put forward the philosophy Extreme Pleasure.There is no happiness in the philosophy Extreme Pleasure in fact,but everything can be happy.lt goes beyond grief and joy and it isn’t about joy itself any more. What ideal state Chuang Tzu pursuit is Peripateticism, which he thought is a higher and better state than brief and joy. The acquisition of peripateticism is to free oneself from bondage of the outer world and self-restrain, so one can be free and unfettered. In this state, there is no grief and joy, so one doesn’t have to find another way to be happy.Extreme Pleasure is based on Tao,which is the highest concept in Chuang Tzu and is beyond everything in the world.The accomplishment of the state of Extreme Pleasure is through Xinzhai and Zuowang. They are two ways of life-cultivation. So this is the philosophy of Extreme PleasureWhen compared with Mencius’s philosophy about Pleasure, it has something in common with it and also they have some differences, but they both belong to one part of Chinese traditional culture.