Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained

Zhuangzi argues that we must first be disorientated by language to discover that higher knowledge is beyond words. 

Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self”, or perhaps exercising a kind of trained “forgetting” of that which is extraneous to the essential self. In this state, we become less prone to partaking in the superfluous occupations we impose upon ourselves to cope with the weight of social expectat