Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from the classic writings The Way of Chuang Tzu translated by Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the ...

Without questioning the foundations of Taoism, Chuang Tzu developed a theory known as Tao of reality. According to Chuang Tzu, happiness of man is dependent on a number of "little" things like food ...

Lin (The Tao of Daily Life) retells 17 stories by the ancient Tao master Chuang Tzu (who lived in the fourth century B.C.E.), dividing them into four sections corresponding to the spiritual journey: ...

Find a bookstore with an “Eastern Spirituality” shelf, and there will be a copy of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching on it. That 80-page, maddeningly obscure book is Taoism to most people. To the scholar of ...

Apologies for the typo: the name of this remarkable fellow was Chuang Tzu or Zuangzi depending on your mode of translating Chinese names into English. I've long known of him via Oakeshott but had ...

Unlike any of the other major world religions, Taoism is not just a school of thought, but also a philosophical, intellectual, spiritual, and folk tradition that, in different times and places, has ...

Taoism, or Daoism, is the Chinese philosophical and religious system, dating from about the 4th century BC. Taoism has, along with Confucianism, shaped Chinese life for more than 2,000 years. Taoist ...

I wonder if you realize what you may have have unintentionally affirmed. Chuang Tzu did not believe that even someone as close to him as his own son could grasp the essence of his craft through words.