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 ...

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 ...

Note: last November, The Cubit asked religion scholar Alan Levinovitz to review Derek Lin’s new book, The Tao of Happiness, Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey. Alan wrote his ...

This article gives a brief overview of Lao Tzu, who is traditionally described as the founder of Taoism. Lao Tzu (Laozi) is traditionally described as the founder of Taoism, but modern writers think ...

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.

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 ...