Ancient Chinese thinker Zhuangzi championed a philosophy of letting go of words and labels. He believed true understanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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.