Library / The 200 / Chuang Tzu
No. 22 of 200 · Great Authors
286 BC
Major worksZhuangzi
The Chinese sage who, after Lao Tzu, became the most influential voice of Taoism, known for playful parables, paradoxes, and the famous dream of the butterfly. His writings delight in questioning certainty, fixed perspectives, and the usefulness of conventional ambition, offering a vision of freedom found in spontaneity and harmony with the Way.
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