11/10/2025
A free text on ancient Chinese Taoist philosophy …
"I'm Dao with that!" 😄
New book: Zhuangzi, the laughter of the Dao.
Zhuangzi, the Laughter of the Dao offers a poetic and philosophical journey into one of the freest and most unsettling minds of ancient China. Far from any doctrinal system, Zhuangzi invites us to flow with the world rather than to control it, to embrace change instead of resisting it. Through fables, paradoxes, and playful reflection, he teaches how to think without rigidity, to live without attachment, to celebrate the useless, and to act without forcing. This book revisits his major themes, the fluidity of being, free wandering, non-action, perpetual transformation, while linking them to contemporary concerns: identity, freedom, death, technique, and society. Between poetry and philosophy, humour and consciousness, Zhuangzi, the Laughter of the Dao reveals an art of living in harmony with reality, where grace of movement and lightness of mind become the marks of a quirky wisdom.
You can download the book here:https://www.pratiques-philosophiques.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/zhuangdao_eng.pdf
Don't hesitate to write to me with any reflections or questions that the reading might inspire you.
