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 ...

Contemporary intellectual discourse on the animal question is already referenced inexhaustibly with the Western canon's philosophical, religious, political, and literary texts. This essay proposes ...

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 ...

New Directions Publishing has launched an audiobook program. After releasing its first title in audiobook form, Thomas Merton's The Way of Chuang Tzu, in December 2018, New Directions began its ...

Using contemporary Western philosophic ideas, this essay examines Hsün Tzu's view of the mind as both a director of action and a spectator of action. In analyzing the mind as director, Hsün Tzu argues ...

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 ...

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.