Title The Way of Chuang Tzu Thomas Merton.pdf ✅

PHILOSOPHY The Way of Chuang Tzu Thomas Merton Working from existing translations, Father Merton has composed a series of personal versions from his favorites among the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spirit- ual of the Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesman for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu's writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that In- dian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name-Zen. The Chinese sage abounds in wit, paradox, satire, and shat- tering insight into the true ground of being. Father Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao. This re-creation of an an- cient sage by a contemporary poet is presented with an introduction on the meaning of Taoism for the West today. Illustrated with early Chinese drawings. "Written in a pleasing, readable and poetic style ... it is useful and delightful. ... "-Choice "A most admirable introduction to this less known but most important source-book of Taoism.'' -Alan Watts, New York Times Book Review [Other Asian Paperbooks by Thomas Merton: Gandhi on Non- Violence, NDP197, $1.50; Original Child Bomb (on Hiroshima), NDP228, $1.95; Zen and the Birds of Appetite (essays), NDP261, $1.75.] A New Directions Paperbook NDP276 $1.75
THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU
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