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The Daoist Path
Start with the Tao Te Ching’s paradoxes — water, non-action, the unnameable — then let Zhuangzi dissolve your certainties with butterflies and butchers.
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The Unnameable Tao
Laozi
Why the first line of the book undoes the book.
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Concept · 5 min
Wu Wei — The Power of Non-Action
Laozi
Acting without forcing.
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Concept · 5 min
The Wisdom of Water
Laozi
The soft overcomes the hard.
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Full text · 2 chapters
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
Eighty-one verses; read slowly.
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Concept · 5 min
The Butterfly Dream
Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi or the butterfly?
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Concept · 5 min
The Skill of Cook Ding
Zhuangzi
Mastery as effortlessness.
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Concept · 5 min
Free and Easy Wandering
Zhuangzi
The Daoist picture of freedom.
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Full text · 33 chapters
Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi
The funniest great book in philosophy.
Further reading
More from Daoism, beyond the core path.
