Musings of a Chinese Mystic

By: Zhuang Zhou

Narrated by: Jagannatha Dasa, The Icon Players

Zhuang Zhou was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the fourth century BC during the Warring States period, a period corresponding to the summit of Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing - in part or in whole - a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of the foundational texts of Taoism. Herein is perhaps his most well known work.

Produced by Devin Lawrence

Edited by Macc Kay

Production executive Avalon Giuliano

ICON intern Eden Giuliano

Music by AudioNautix with their kind permission

©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P)2020 Eden Garret Giuliano

Vital literature

This is a very beautiful, irreplaceable work that builds upon the Tao Te Ching. Recommend!

Confusingly translated

The adaptions in wording for a western translation are at best confusing to the original text, at worst completely out of context and misleading. The liberties taken make this difficult to listen to with any knowledge of Lao Tzu or Zhuang Zhou. Translations to the Dao are not of any particular importance, but in this case the meaning is obscured, the concepts are the only importance and they are sadly lost to translation here.

Vocal fry

Couldn’t get past 10 minutes. Too much vocal fry. Introduction too long. Terrible reading. I wish i could forget the vocal fry