The Way of Chuang Tzu, by Thomas Merton

Re: The Way of Chuang Tzu, by Thomas Merton

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following translations and studies have been used in arriving at the "readings" presented in this volume and in writing the essay on Chuang Tzu.

Giles, Herbert A.: Chuang Tzu, Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer, translated from the Chinese, Shanghai, 1926.

-----: Confucianism and Its Rivals, London, 1915.

Hughes, E.R.: Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times, London, 1954.

Legge, James: The Texts of Taoism, translations, with an introduction by D. T. Suzuki, New York, 1959.

Sze, Mai Mai: The Tao of Painting, 2 vols., New York, 1956.

Wieger, Leon, S.J.: Les Peres du Systeme Taoiste, Paris, 1950.

Wilhelm, Richard: Dschuang Tsi-Das Wahre Buch Vom Sudlichen Blutenland, Dusseldorf / Koler, 1951.

Wu, John C.H.: The Wisdom o f Chuang Tzu: A New Appraisal" in International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. III, No. 1, Feb., 1963.

Yu-Lan, Fung: The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy, Boston, 1962.

Yutang, Lin: The Wisdom of India and China, New York, 1942.
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Re: The Way of Chuang Tzu, by Thomas Merton

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NOTES

(Section and verse references in the Readings are to the edition of Chuang Tzu in The Texts of Taoism translated by James Legge.)

1 From the amplifications of the Yi Ching, quoted by Fung Yu Lang, The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy, p. 89.

2 Mai Mai Sze, The Tao of Painting, Vol. 1 , p. 4.

3 Tao Teh Ching, Chap. 30.

4 Ibid., Chap. 38.

5 John C. H. Wu, "The Wisdom of Chuang Tzu: A New Appraisal," p. 8.

6 The Chuang Tzu book, xxxiii. 2.

7 Ibid., 1-2.

8 See "The Importance of Being Toothless" (page 121), and "When Knowledge Went North" (page 118).

9 Taught by Hui Tzu. But see also the Tao Teh Ching.

10 The "two courses" are, on one level, the higher way of Tao, the "divine" way, and on the other, the ordinary human way manifested in the simple conditions of everyday life.

11 Tao Teh Ching, Chap. 56.

12 Ibid., Chap. 2.

13 Ibid., Chap. 56.

14 This illustrates Chuang Tzu's "middle way" between not having evident qualities and yet not being without qualities. The point is to have them as not having them, to excel with an excellence that is not one's own but that belongs to Tao. Thus one is not admired, or even strictly "recognized," and yet one is an obscure force in society none the less!
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