The Holy Fool
The Complete Zhuangzi
The Complete Works of Zhuangzi. Translated by Burton Watson.
Now I do not know whether I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
— Zhuangzi, ch. 2 (Watson)
Why it belongs
Why on the path of Order? Because every living order needs its holy fool. Zhuangzi is the wild counter-voice within Zion—the laughter that keeps law from hardening into mere rule, and reminds the city that its forms serve life, not the reverse.
Echoes across the paths
The same structure, carried in other images—one tradition's metaphor mapping onto another's.