The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)

10 best books like The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library) (Zhuangzi): Mencius, Tao: The Watercourse Way, Taking the Path of Zen, The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng, Zen and the Birds of Appetite, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu, The Essential Tao, The Tao of Inner Peace, 365 Tao: Daily Meditations, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

Mencius

Author

Mencius

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with kings, dukes and military men, as well as other philosophers, is one of the Four Books that make up the essential...

Tao: The Watercourse Way

Author	Alan W. Watts
ISBN	0394733118

While I most enjoy the hundreds of hours of lectures by this, my favorite thinker of all time, I do treasure this book which was his last - and was a gift to me from his son Mark. After I received it, I noticed the musty smell of a fine old book. Watts died in the 70's while in his late 50's and he lived on a houseboat...

Taking the Path of Zen

Author	Robert Aitken
ISBN	0865470804

There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity.

The foundation of Zen is the practice...

The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng

Author	Hui-Neng
ISBN	0877730059

The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the 4th century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature & is the oldest existing printed book in the world. It's known as the Diamond Sutra because its teachings are said to be like diamonds that cut away all dualistic thought, releasing...

Zen and the Birds of Appetite

Author

Thomas Merton

"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite—one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone,...

Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu

Author	Lao Tzu
ISBN	0060692456

آیا این گونه می پنداری که هستی متلاطم و بی قرار است؟ پس در شب به بیابان بزن و به ستاره ها بنگر. با این تمرین پاسخ ات را خواهی گرفت.
"مردِ برتر" ذهنِ خود را آرام می...

The Essential Tao

Author	Thomas Cleary
ISBN	0641535414

The four stars are for the translation. Ranking the Tao Te Ching or Chuang Tzu is a fairly hilarious idea, equivalent to rating the New Testament. No book of any sort is more important to my way of thinking and, to the extent I can stay centered and uncentered, acting, in the world. Taoism is grounded in notions...

The Tao of Inner Peace

Author	Diane Dreher
ISBN	0452281997

Translated more often than any other book except the Bible, the Tao Te Ching has been a spiritual guide for centuries, helping millions find peace within themselves, with each other, and with the natural world around them. Written in workbook style, complete with exercises, questionnaires, journal-keeping...

365 Tao: Daily Meditations

Author	Ming-Dao Deng
ISBN	0062502239

Place the word Tao
Into your heart.
Use no other words.

The Tao is constantly moving, the path that all life and the whole universe takes. There is nothing that is not part of it—harmonious living is to know and to move with the Tao—it is a way of life, the natural order of things, a force...

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

Author	Nāgārjuna
ISBN	0195093364

The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...

Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness

Author	Tsai Chih Chung
ISBN	0385472579

This collection of comic strips is a wonderful distillation of Zen. Since Zen is more of a style of living than an actual religion, it converts well to bite-sized snippets. The tradition of Zen koans also lends itself to this presentation.

I originally read this book in the early 2000s, during...

The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Author	Bodhidharma
ISBN	0865473994

A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual...

The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-Fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings

Author	Gampopa
ISBN	1559390921

In all his studies, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is one of the texts that Khenpo [Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche, the translator of this edition] found to be most inspiring. Lord Gampopa lays out the teachings in a clear and systematic way that is understandable to beginners. At the same time, the work...

Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

Author	Liezi
ISBN	1570628998

The Lieh-tzu is a collection of stories and philosophical musings of a sage of the same name who lived around the fourth century BCE. Lieh-tzu's teachings range from the origin and purpose of life, the Taoist view of reality, and the nature of enlightenment to the training of the body and mind, communication,...

Taoism

Author	John Blofeld
ISBN	1570625891

A religion with roots stretching back nearly five thousand years, Taoism combines elements of folklore, occult sciences, cosmology, yoga, meditation, poetry, and exalted mysticism. Mysterious and charmingly poetic, it is a living remnant of a way of life which has almost vanished from the world....