Alberto Caeiro is such a grounding, profound figure in Pessoa’s universe—he is the "Master" precisely because he refuses to get tangled up in the complexity of thinking. He doesn't want to analyze a flower; he just wants to look at it, smell it, and live alongside it.

To describe his personality using Taiwanese concepts, we can look at elegant expressions that capture his radical simplicity, his connection to nature, and his calm acceptance of the world exactly as it is.

Here is how we can define his spirit through the beauty of Taiwanese phrasing:

1. 順應自然 (Sūn-èng chū-jiân) — Living in Harmony with Nature

Caeiro didn't want a grand philosophy; he believed that "the only meaning of things is that they have no hidden meaning." In Taiwanese culture, a life lived in perfect, unforced alignment with the natural world is deeply respected. He is someone who flows completely with the seasons, the wind, and the sun without trying to dominate or over-intellectualize them.

2. 返璞歸真 (Phán-phok kui-chin) — Returning to Pristine Simplicity and Truth

This expression beautifully captures Caeiro's core mission: what he called the "learning to unlearn." It represents stripping away all the heavy, artificial layers of human ideology, culture, and anxious overthinking to return to a pure, unblemished state of direct sensory experience—seeing the world with the clear, honest eyes of a child or a shepherd.

3. 看破 (Khuànn-phò) — A Calm, Clear-Eyed Acceptance

While in some contexts this can mean resignation, in a deeper, poetic sense, it describes someone who looks directly at reality and sees through the illusions. Caeiro looked at the universe and found peace in the "difficult fact of accepting the inevitable." He didn't demand that the world be a certain way; he had the tranquil clarity to let a stone be a stone and a tree be a tree, completely free of existential angst.

"Thinking is a disease of the eyes."

— A perspective that Caeiro championed, choosing instead to let his gaze be as open and untroubled as the blue sky.

He stands as a gentle reminder of how beautiful the world is when we simply allow ourselves to exist within it, breathing it in rather than trying to solve it.