The most significant Daoist term for social and psychological ease is yóu 游 (pronounced “yo”). page
It is used more than one hundred times in the Zhuangzi in different variations and meanings. The term is related to the words for “Swimming” and “Journey,” and the written character contains the radical “water,” associating it loosely with “flow.”
It expresses the idea of a rather effortless, playful, and not goal-oriented motion. “Rambling around without destination” is how A. C. Graham (2001) translated the title of the first chapter of the Zhuangzi: the three-character expression xiaoyao you 逍遥游 that ends with you. This expression alludes to the movement of children, or animals, like fish.
It is important to point out that such movement does not lead to any mystical beyond. Nor is it escapist or antisocial. As in the case of the naked scribe, to be at ease does not mean to do nothing or to eschew one’s identity altogether. You can indicate the capacity to be highly attentive to one’s surroundings, as animals are, or to learn in a nonstrenuous and potentially spontaneous way, as children can. It can also refer to the social ease among people that we experience when engaged in an intellectually stimulating or emotionally enjoyable conversation among friends.
The Daoist notion of yóu explores possibilities for contentment within an often suppressive regime of sincerity. Such contentment can sometimes be found through an approach to identity where one neither overcommits to nor shuns away from enacting one’s social personas—a state meditation masters might refer to as “calm emotional detachment.” You implies the paradoxical flexibility both to critically subvert the ethos of a socially enforced identity and to enjoy having it. Exactly how this is possible under conditions of profilicity remains to be seen. A contemporary version of the tale of the naked scribe has not yet been written.
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MOELLER, Hans-Georg and D’AMBROSIO, Paul J., 2021. You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-19601-7, p. 243–244.
《莊子·逍遙遊》 Zhuang Zi - The Article of Xiaoyao You page