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The texts of Chuang Tzu are some of the most outstanding works every produced in philosophy. They are rich with stories, parables and dialogs on human interaction, life and living; reaching out to the lives of the young, old, rich and poor. These works, in conjunction with the Dao De Jing by Lao Tzu serve as the entire backbone of the Daoist Philiosophy.
Chuang Tzu did not believe in any creator God, or any God at all in the Western
sense; rather he believe in an underlying Tao, Way or One, from which
the Heaven and Earth derived. This One transfused everything in the
universe from the lowest to the highest.
The individual could attain mystical unity with this One by achieving
complete emptiness or hsü - a timeless state free of worries or seflish
desires, open to impressions but transcending all individual material
objects.
I present for you here several works that have been interpreted by many different scholars. Unlike the version of
the Dao De Jing on this site which I personally translated, I have left these in their most commonly known translations
for you to enjoy. I am working on my own translations from the original Chinese characters, but fear it will be years before I
can present them to you here.
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