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WANDERIN G

ON TH E

WAY

EARLY TAOIST TALES AND PARABLE S

OF CHUANG

Translated with an Introductio n

and Commentary b y

Victor H . Mair

4 V

BANTAM BOOK S

NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON SYDNEY AUCKLAND

Tzu

WANDERING ON THE WA Y

A Bantam Book / September I99 4

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For Susan Rebecca and Heidi Lynne ,

two women of strength ;

And for Joseph Richard ,

the wandering Van-Man .

Chuang-tzu .

[Nan-hua chen ching. English ]

Wandering on the way : early Taoist tales and parables of Chuan g

Tzu / translated with an introduction and commentary b y

Victor H . Mair.

I . Mair, Victor H ., 1943—

. II . Title .

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Ka vatai dvgnniaibyasca yaogat asŭ

Who yoked the pairs of swift (steeds) to wind and welkin ?

Zend-Avesta, Yasna 44 .4

CONTENT S

PREFACE

X i

INTRODUCTION

XV1 1

NOTES ON THE TRANSLATION

XIVi i

MAP OF CHINA CIRCA 330 B .C .E .

I V

INNER CHAPTER S

I . Carefree Wandering

I 0

3 . Essentials for Nurturing Life

2 5

2 9

5 . Symbols of Integrity Fulfilled 4 2

6 . The Great Ancestral Teacher 5I

7 . Responses for Emperors and Kings

6 6

OUTER CHAPTER S

8. Webbed Toes

7 5

9. Horses ' Hooves

8 4

II . Preserving and Accepting

9 0

2 . On the Equality of Things

4 . The Human World

10. Ransacking Coffers

I2. Heaven and Earth

10 2

I3. The Way of Heaven

119

14. Heavenly Revolutions

13 0

I5. Ingrained Opinions

I4 4

I6. Mending Nature

I4 8

I7. Autumn Floods

15 2

16 6

I9 . Understanding Life

17 4

20. The Mountain Tree

I85

PREFAC E

19 8

22. Knowledge Wanders North

210

MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER S

23. Kengsang Ch'u

22 5

24. Ghostless Hsii

23 7

The Chuang Tzu is far and away my favorite Chinese book.

Although this fascinating collection of essays, tales, and anec-

dotes presents many difficult problems of interpretation, for tw o

decades it has been the work that I wanted more than any othe r

to render into English . To prepare myself for the task, I gathered

together scores of traditional and modern commentaries . Al -

though I have consulted them closely and carefully during th e

course of my research, I seldom refer to them directly in th e

Notes on the Translation . The main reason for this is that I view

the Chuang Tzu primarily as a work of literature rather than as a

work of philosophy and wish to present it to the reading publi c

unencumbered by technical arcana that would distract from th e

pleasure of encountering one of the most playful and witt y

books in the world.

There have been a few previous translations of the Chuang

Tzu into English, French, German, Mandarin, Japanese, an d

other languages (the majority of them incomplete or abridged ,

others very much out of date) although nothing like the hun-

dreds that have been done for the Tao Te Ching, that other well-

known Taoist classic . A couple of these renditions are quite

254

26. External Things

26 8

278

28. Abdicating Kingship

284

29 8

30. Discoursing on Swords

3I 2

3I . An Old Fisherman

3I 7

324

33. All Under Heaven

33 3

GLOSSAR Y

Names

34 9

Places

36 4

Terms and Allusions

37 0

BIBLIOGRAPHY

38 7

DELETED PASSAGES

39 3

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 401

18 . Ultimate Joy

2I . Sir Square Field

25. Sunny

27. Metaphors

29. Robber Footpad

32. Lich Yiik'ou

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