Musings of a Chinese Mystic is a collection of selections from the philosophical writings of Chuang Tzŭ (Zhuangzi), with an introduction by Lionel Giles. Through reflections, dialogues, and parables, it presents Chuang Tzŭ’s Taoist thought on living according to nature, the relativity of human judgments, freedom from artificial distinctions, and the cultivation of effortless, unselfconscious action. Giles’s introduction places Chuang Tzŭ in the development of early Taoism and explains his relationship to the teachings of Lao Tzŭ. The extracts in this volume are drawn, with one or two very slight modifications, from the translation by Professor H. A. Giles.