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What's In The Name?

Why 'Wandering Theosophist?'

Wandering - probably the single most important and quintessential concept in the Chuan Tzu, but often overlooked because it is presented in literary rather than philosophical terms.

"Wandering" implies a "a laid-back" attitude toward life in which one takes things as they come and flows with the Tao unconcernedly. (The word yu is usually translated as 'wander(ing)' but is occasionally rendered as 'play(ing), 'strolling,' or 'enjoy(ing) oneself.')

"Wandering" with someone can also mean to study with or learn from them. (When engaged in by Confucians and other 'uptight' types, yu means simply 'traveling' or, at best, 'going on an excursion.')

(Source: Wandering On The Way, Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu, translated by Victor H. Mair, p.385)

Theosophist - "the lover of godly or divine wisdom," from the word 'theosophy' which means divine knowledge or science. "Divine Wisdom," (theosophia) or Wisdom of the gods, as (theogonia), geneology of the gods, is the real meaning of the term.

The word theos means a god in Greek, one of the divine beings, certainly not "God" in the sense attached in our day to the term. Therefore it is not "Wisdom of God," as translated by some, but Divine Wisdom such as that possessed by the gods.

Thus, in the special language of the Chuang Tzu, 'wandering' amounts to a technical term from that transcedental sort of free movement which is the mark of an enlightened being, the individual Theosophist.

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