Chuang Tzu

First published in 1889. This re-issues the second revised edition of 1926.Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu the author of Tao Tê Ching as Hui-neng the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism was to Bodhidharma and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus; he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism. Whereas Lao Tzu was a contemporary of Confucius in the sixth century B.C Chuang Tzu lived over two hundred years later. He was one of the greatest minds produced by China; philosopher metaphysician moralist and poet. It is impossible to understand the spiritual depth of the Tao Tê Ching without the aid of Chuang Tzu.