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This paper aims to analyze the westem thought in Zhuangzi’s philosophy, especially focusing on the concepts of xuxin, chengxin, zuowang, sangjon, and powol. According to Zhuangzi, world is a field that changes constantly as well as has unfixedness. Also, it is a complex network in which things are related to each other. In the world, things are connected and communicate with others spontaneously. In this sense, he says that each thing is different from others and has its own particularity, respecting each other. In other words, there exists the difference and equality between things. This thought appears in xuxin, chengxin, zuowang, sangjon, and powol. Chengxin, constituted mind, causes narrow-minded thought. As a result, it leads to not cognizing correctly things or humans by distorted mind. Zhuangzi proposes xuxin to escape from chengxin. Xuxin is a kind of mind or a practical act that can accept difference and be able to comrnunicate with things. Xuxin is embodied in zuowang, emptiness and forgetting. Zuowang enables to empty all of fixed idea or consciousness, to be aware of world and humans in the perspective of difference and becoming, and to communicate with things equally. It shares the meaning of sangjon and powol. Sangjon and powol is aimed at respecting things and banding together equally. They are concepts that togethemess exists. Also, they are practical thoughts able to generate communities.