Reviews for The Book of Chuang Tzu

The average rating for The Book of Chuang Tzu based on 1 review is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-02-03 00:00:00 Austin Diemer Lovely poetic stories exemplifying key Daoist concepts. Whereas the Tao Te Ching is pure symbolism and poetry, this is a collection of parables. That means its a lot more "concrete." As a result, it gets even more explicitly anarchist than Laozi at times, but it also gets even more explicitly bizarre (condemning listening to complex music for example). This has the famous Butterfly Dream parable in it, as well as the Turtle of Ch'u parable, which were both excellent. This is a good way for people to understand Daoism who can't handle the vagueness of the Tao Te Ching. Laozi may be the old master, but Zhuangzi is the one I'd want to smoke with.