![]() ![]() ![]() Merton points out that Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu, a kindred spirit who gave us the TAO TE CHING, have left a permanent mark on Chinese culture. Merton writes, that Chuang Tzu’s “taste for simplicity, humility, self-effacement, silence, and in general a refusal to take seriously the aggressiveness, ambition, the push and self-importance which one must display in order to get along in society.” This book is a compilation, of anecdotes, poems and meditations whose mentality is similar in many ways to that of the Desert monks. That book seems like a natural lead in to Merton’s interest in Chuang Tzu, a Chinese monk and wise man who lived 2500 years ago. ![]() Just before this book, I had read Merton’s WISDOM OF THE DESERT about early Christian monks who found that their spiritual values were better lived by retreating from what they saw as a corrupting society and leading a simple life in the desert. ![]()
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