#spontaneity

? What does ziran, “self-so”, actually mean, and why do people call it the centre of Daoism?

Maturana and Varela described living things as autopoietic, self-making: a cell produces the very components that produce it. A friend in Santiago told me that Daoism had a word for something similar, ziran, which she translated as “self-so” or “of itself so”.…