Another and perhaps even greater writer on Taoism was the sage Chuang-tzu. (369 – 286 BCE) His collection of stories, poems and parables also known by his name is just as commonly loved and quoted by Chinese readers and Taoists as the Tao Te Ching. One of the wittiest and most playful books in world philosophy. — Victor H. Mair This collection is also a composition of the thoughts and musings of more than one writer over a successive period. It consists of thirty three chapters, the first seven, ‘inner books’ which were written by Chuang-tsu himself, fifteen ‘outer’ and eleven ‘mixed’ books all which would appear to have been written by his followers. The concepts covered within the Chuang-tsu are akin to those of the Tao Te Ching and so both Lao-tsu and Chuang-tsu in essence agree with one another on the Tao and the Te. However, Chuang-tsu places…