About this title: Chuang Tzu considered, along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought used parables and anecdotes, allegory, and paradox to illustrate that real happiness and freedom are found only in understanding the Tao or Way of nature, and dwelling in its unity. Thomas Mertons collection of poetic renderings taken from the Chinese classic that bears Chuang Tzus name conveys its spirit in a way no other translation has and was Mertons personal favourite among his more than fifty books.
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Edition: Eighteenth Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Good+ Very slight cover wear. Underlining/highlighting/notes to approximately 6% of pgs only. Several pg corners are folded down. Spine is tight. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. Trade paper near new. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Good. Cover has bumping, chips, tears at spine, scuffs, marks, residue-Marks on edge-Bumping pgs-Stamp on FFEP-Marks on pgs-Cracked. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, NY
Date published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. A couple of tiny bumps around edges. Otherwise almost like new. read more
Binding: trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Near Fine. 5 x 8 trade paperback book. Black lettering on the white spine and cover. This re-creation of an ancient sage by a contemporary poet is presented with an introduction on the meaning of Taoism for the West today. Illustrated with early Chinese drawings. 159 pages. Light wear. Tight binding. Near Fine condition. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. New Directions Paperbook, 276. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 12th ptg
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions, NY
Date published: (1969)
Description: VG PB. Merton's personal versions from his favorites from classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. read more
Description: New. 1590301439 The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)-New. Will have slight wear from sitting on our shelves. Will have price sticker. Binding: Hardcover ISBN13: 9781590301432 Size: 4.3 x 6.6 x.8 in. We are professional and prompt. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions, 1965 1st prtg. 159p, NY
Date published: 1965
Description: Hardcover, original cloth. Ex-seminary library copy. Old paper label on spine, name stamped on title page, otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201032ISBN:0811201031
Description: Very Good. Trade Paperback 0811201031 Solid Copy Ninth printing. Covers are clean. Long inscription at half title page; otherwise interior is clean, tight, bright, unmarked. read more
"I read the Tao Teh Ching a few years ago and become obsessed, reading various translations. I saved reading any Chuang Tzu till now. Generally Chuang Tzu is less ambiguous and more consistent than Lao Tzu. It is much easier to see the influence of Chuang Tzu rather then Lao Tzu on Zen Buddhism. Here is some quotes I loved: "The rich make life intolerable, driving themselves in order to get more and more money which they cannot really use. In so doing they are alienated from themselves, and exhaust themselves in their own service as though they were slaves of others."(p.99) I think this applies to the North American middle class, who are the global "rich". This also applies, "When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him." (p.136). See also the chapter Active Life which reads, "Those who are caught in the machinery of power take no joy except in activity and change- the whirring of the machine!" (p.142)"
"a reference book on my shelf, which I return to again and again. Chuang Tzu illustrates the way with fables rather than epigrams. More approachable than Lao Tzu, thought some stories can be as enigmatic as truisms. Not a book to read through cover to cover in one sitting, but rather a book to leave around, and pick a page at random whenever guidance is needed."
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