Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters, A Companion Volume to Tao Te Ching

The sublime prose serves as a profound and paradoxical commentary to the Tao Te Ching.. Even 2,000 years after his death, this provocative Taoist text remains in the forefront of ancient Chinese philosophical study. Brilliant, mystical, pragmatic and witty, some have called Chuang Tsu the world's first anarchist. A companion to the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters is a spiritual classic in its own right and a source book second only to the Tao Te Ching in importance in the Taoist canon

Re-reading Chuang Tzu I'd read Chuang Tzu (the Burton Watson translation, I think) when I was in college in the late sixties. As a young adult, I found the ideas expressed in Taoism to be fascinating, appealing, yet very hard to understand. Now in my mid-sixties I wanted to r. Inner Chapters applewood "Now I am going to tell you something. I don't know what heading it comes under, and whether or not it is relevant here, but it must be relevant at some point. It is not anything new, but I would like to say it.There is a beginning. There is no beginning. Classic John E. Patton New cover-- contents reveal the relationship and responsibilities we each have as oppertunities in our life. The next stage of Taoest thought and exploration.