She provides insightful, accessible commentary that highlights the Chuang-tzu's call to reject artificially imposed boundaries and distinctions, and illustrates how you can live a more balanced, authentic and joyful life-at ease in perfect happiness-by following Taoist principles. In this special SkyLight Illuminations edition, leading Taoist scholar Livia Kohn, PhD, provides a fresh, modern translation of key selections from this timeless text to open up classic Taoist beliefs and practices.

Using parable, anecdote, allegory and paradox, the Chuang-tzu presents the central message of what was to become the Taoist school: a reverence for the Tao-the 'Way' of the natural world-and the belief that you are not truly virtuous until you are free from the burden of circumstance, personal attachments, tradition and the desire to reform the world. Representing the philosophy of its main author, Chuang Chou, along with several other early Taoist strands, the text has inspired spiritual seekers for over two thousand years. It was compiled in the third century BCE and follows the lead of the best-known and oldest of all Taoist texts, the Tao-te-ching (Book of the Tao and Its Potency). The Chuang-tzu is the second major text of the Taoist tradition. Next to Lao Tzu, the legendary writer of Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu (Zhuang Zi) is the most famous of the Chinese Taoists. The Chuang Tzu is the wild and wacky prose complement to the Tao Te Ching. Essential Writings of Taoism: The Tao Te Ching and the Chuang Tzu Paperback by James Legge (Translator), Herbert Allen Giles (Translator) 3 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 14.99 2 Used from 20.99 4 New from 14.99 The two classics of Chinese philosophy.

The timeless wisdom of this classic Taoist text can become a companion on your own spiritual journey. Equally influential in the social sphere, Confucius Analects is the source of social wisdom in China.

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