@EternalCynic, I wasn't trying to quote the text itself, that was my paraphrase. And yeah, the text is open to interpretation to say the least... I've worked through the received text in Chinese and one of the commentaries, as well as a couple modern annotated versions... honestly I don't get the appeal of it, compared to say
Zhuangzi. But that's neither here nor there for purposes of this thread
If it's not too much of a cop-out, how about an entirely OTL philosophical tradition? There were certainly a lot of them running around at one point, and we really don't know much about most of them.