What Is Tao?

By Alan Watts

Watts synthesises Taoism as it appears in the Tao Te Ching, the I Ching, The Art of War and Zhuangzi, drawing out the thread of wu wei — action that does not force. He presents the Tao as a practice of personal liberation, a way of moving with a world that will not hold still. Brief, companionable and quietly transformative.