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First published in 1889. This re-issues the second, revised edition of 1926.
Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Tê Ching, as Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was to Bodhidharma, and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus; he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism. Whereas Lao Tzu was a contemporary of Confucius in the sixth century B.C, Chuang Tzu lived over two hundred years later. He was one of the greatest minds produced by China; philosopher, metaphysician, moralist and poet. It is impossible to understand the spiritual depth of the Tao Tê Ching without the aid of Chuang Tzu.
List of contents
1: Transcendental Bliss; 2: The Identity Of Contraries; 3: Nourishment Of The Soul; 4: Man Among Men; 5: The Evidence Of Virtue Complete; 6: The Great Supreme; 7: How To Govern; 8: Joined Toes; 9: Horses' Hoofs; 10: Opening Trunks; 11: On Letting Alone; 12: The Universe; 13: The Tao Of God; 14: The Circling Sky; 15: Self-Conceit; 16: Exercise Of Faculties; 17: Autumn Floods; 18: Perfect Happiness; 19: The Secret Of Life; 20: Mountain Trees; 21: T'Ien Tz? Fang; 22: Knowledge Travels North; 23: KÊNg Sang Ch'U; 24: HsÜ Wu Kuei; 25: TsÊ Yang; 26: Contingencies; 27: Language; 28: On Declining Power; 29: Robber Che; 30: On Swords; 31: The Old Fisherman; 32: Lieh Tz?; 33: The Empire
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Herbert A Giles
Summary
First published in 1889. This re-issues the second, revised edition of 1926.
Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Tê Ching, as Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was to Bodhidharma, and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus; he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism. Whereas Lao Tzu was a contemporary of Confucius in the sixth century B.C, Chuang Tzu lived over two hundred years later. He was one of the greatest minds produced by China; philosopher, metaphysician, moralist and poet. It is impossible to understand the spiritual depth of the Tao Tê Ching without the aid of Chuang Tzu.
