Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu

LibriVox recording of Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu by Lionel Giles; Zhuangzi. (Translated by Herbert Allen Giles.) Read in English by Scotty Smith. If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to his disciple Chuang Tzu, who flourished more than a couple of centuries later, when the bugbear of civilisation had steadily advanced. With chagrin he saw that Lao Tzu's teaching had never obtained any firm hold on the masses, still less on the rulers of China, where