![]() ![]() In bold and startling prose, David Hinton's translation captures the "zany texture and philosophical abandon" of the original. ![]() But this is an ancient text that yields a surprisingly modern effect. Zen traces its sources back to these Taoist roots - roots at least as deep as those provided by Buddhism. Indeed, the Tao of Chuang Tzu was a wholesale rejection of a human-centered approach. Witty and engaging, spiced with the lyricism of poetry, Chuang Tzu's Taoist insights are timely and eternal, profoundly concerned with spiritual ecology. The Inner Chapters are the only sustained section of this text widely believed to be the work of Chuang Tzu himself, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. Revered for millennia in the Chinese spiritual tradition, Chuang Tzu stands alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding classic of Taoism. ![]()
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