The Way of Chuang Tzu Sam Neill summer of 1965

summer of 1965

and Villa del Balbianello with their lush gardens and fragrant greenery

and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of America’s greatest writers

with each passage bursting forth with vibrant color

balancing the genre’s tradition with its future and reflecting the melting pot of talent and diversity within the current scene

The Way of Chuang Tzu Sam Neill summer of 1965Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B. C., is the chief authentic historical spokesperson 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