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Chuang Tzu Stories

1. Apologies

2. The Empty Boat

3. Means and ends

4. The Useless

5. Three in the Morning

6. The Owl and the Phoenix

7. The need to win

8. Three Friends

9. Chuang Tzu’s funeral

10. The Man of Tao

11. When the shoe fits

12. The Tower of the Spirit

13. Flight from the Shadow

14. Fighting Cock

15. Monkey Mountain

16. Symphony for a seabird

17. Autumn floods

18. The Turtle

19. Duke Hwan & the Wheelwright

20. Man is born in Tao

21. Wholeness

Chuang Tzu Story - Apologies

If a man steps on a stranger’s foot
In the marketplace,
He makes a polite apology
And offers an explanation:
“This place is so crowded.”

If an elder brother
Steps on his younger brother’s foot
He says, “Sorry.”
And that is that.

If a parent steps on his child’s foot
Nothing is said at all.

The greatest politeness
Is free from all formality.
Perfect conduct is free of concern.
Perfect wisdom is unplanned.
Perfect love is without demonstrations.
Perfect sincerity offers no guarantee.