چکیده:
In Daoism، ''Sheng Ren'' or ''Perfect Man'' is assigned to a person who acts in accordance with Dao and nature. A sage person is wholly in harmony with Dao and therefore، the most significant description of him is manifested as ''Wu-wei'' or ''non-action''. Dao is the being which natural and spontaneous process of all the things is depended to it. Therefore، no one should put obstacles in the way of Dao. In conclusion، everything would appear in accordance with its natural and genetical way. Dao is itself without any action but it creates everything. A man can attain truth just in the condition that he acts naturally. In fact، not-action is not anything else than being in accordance with Dao and nature. A Daoist sage is a person who lets all cosmic courses circulate freely in him and in all the world; and following that، both he himself and whole of the world reach to unity in calmness and tranquility. He lays down all his acquired and learned perceptions and realizes his being identical with everything in the world. He avoids from any kind of artificial autonomic interference in nature. As in nature everything arises in stillness and emerges his duties without any frippery or exaggeration; also a man should do all his tasks in their natural course avoiding personal interests or benefits.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A human can only attain the truth and adopt it if they act naturally; in fact, non-action is nothing other than being in harmony with the Tao. A Taoist sage is one who allows the currents of the universe to flow freely within him and throughout the entire world, and consequently, both himself and the world achieve unity in the peace and stillness of the Tao. He casts aside all learned and acquired preconceptions and sees his individual existence as one with all the things of the universe.
57) who must return to their original essence to achieve inner peace and contentment and surrender to nature and the law of the Tao. This human being, although considered a part of the whole of existence, can, by following the principles of the Tao—which is the way of nature—transform into a wise sage who is a mediator between heaven and earth and a manifestation of the Tao. Accordingly, in the Taoist school, nature, the Tao, and man form the vertices of the triangle of the universe, and there is a close connection between them.
480) In fact, the philosophers of the Taoist school considered the governing system over the natural world, the harmony and order manifested in heaven and earth, to be derived from a cosmic force, and they expressed it as Tao. Tao is the constant law governing the flow of things and the movements of beings, according to which all existence moves toward perfection.