Stop Seeking Understanding for Your World, Just Follow Your Path (Zhuangzi)

Описание: Why do we mock dreams that are too big to understand?

Zhuangzi’s ancient parable of the Peng bird—a creature so vast its wings shroud the sky like clouds—reveals a chilling psychological truth: We don't mock what is "unrealistic"; we mock what forces us to face our own limits. To a cicada or a pigeon, a 90,000-li flight isn't a possibility—it's an insult to the only world they’ve ever known.

This video is an autopsy of that mockery. It explores why a "big vision" feels like a threat to a "small mind" and how we use ridicule as a defense mechanism to keep our own mental walls intact.

The walls in their minds are not your boundaries. Every second you spend trying to make them "understand" your world is a second you waste on the ground. Seeking validation from those whose horizons end at the nearest branch is simply clipping your own wings.

Stop justifying your ascent to those who can only see the bushes. Stop explaining, stop seeking permission, and just follow your path.

Your flight is the only proof you will ever need.

📚 REFERENCES

Zhuangzi, *Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings*, trans. Brook Ziporyn (Hackett, 2020), Chapter 1: "Free and Easy Wandering"
Zhuangzi, *The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu*, trans. Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1968), "Wandering at Ease"
Plato, Republic Book VII, trans. Benjamin Jowett (c. 375 BCE), "Allegory of the Cave"

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