Zuowang — sitting and forgetting — is Zhuangzi's term for dropping the body, dismissing intelligence, and merging with the great pervader. The tradition's recurring image for the goal is not trance but skill: the cook Ding whose blade has stayed sharp nineteen years because he finds the spaces, the swimmer who survives the waterfall by following the water. The state is not exotic — anyone absorbed in something they are very good at has touched it — and the practice is about extending it to the whole of living.