This page provides a brief summary of the important texts in Taoism. The key book of Taoism was compiled around the 3rd century BCE. It's called the Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing or Daode Jing) - The Way ...

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 ...

Chuang Tzu was a great disciple of Lao Tzu and an enlightened mystic in his own right. His teaching was mystical and at the same time, deeply immersed within everyday life. He was a master storyteller ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Popular books with The Tao of in the title have proliferated for decades, especially since Fritjof Capra’s bestselling The Tao of Physics (Shambhala, 1975), but few authors apply the Tao to modern ...

John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century. He died in 2009. Zohran Mamdani’s New York City Miracle A few months ago, the “no-name” state ...

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 ...