For John C. H. Wu

Without whose encouragement

I would never have dared this.

Copyright © 1965 by the Abbey of Gethsemani

Copyright © 1997 by Monastic Interreligious Dialogue

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The illustrations in this book are from The Mustard Seed Garden Manual, published in The Tao of Painting by Mai-Mai Sze, Bollingen Foundation, Bollingen Series XLIX, distributed by Princeton University Press.

First published by New Directions as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP276) in 1969

Reissued with a preface by His Holiness The Dalai Lama as a New Directions

Paperbook (NDPI161) in 2010

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.

The way of Chuang Tzu / Thomas Merton ; preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.—

Rev. ev.

p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-811-22307-2 (e-book)

1. Zhuangzi. Nanhua jing. I. Title.

BL1900.C5M47 2010

299.5 1482—dc22                 2009050054

Nihil obstat

Fr. M. Paul Bourne

Fr. M. Charles English

Imprimi potest

Fr. Ignace Gillet

Abbot general

July 24, 1965

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