The wildest mind of ancient China, who turned down a ministry to keep his freedom and dreamt he was a butterfly. Every question of what is useful, natural, or enough runs through him. Two thousand years of Chan, Zen, poetry and landscape painting begin here.
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An Eternal Gardens interpretation of Zhuangzi 莊子, grounded in public-domain sources.
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