Chuang-Tzu

I like the way chuang-tzu points out and criticizes people for thinking they 'know' things, or feeling they are advanced or better than others, or 'sophistocated', etc. The way he sort of sucks you into this 'intelligent' and philosophical train of thought in the first paragraph, and then ridicules you in a sense for even trying to follow along.

Chuang tzu puts religion and philosophy into their most basic states, pointing out that everything around us is important, not our own knowledge or personal identities. He reminds us that if we are ever to find peace within ourselves, we must create peace between ourselves and our nature, because without that harmony, we are constantly at war with our environment. These teachings are similar to the hindu teachings I think, in that we are individually very small and insignificant, but in the grand scheme of things, all together we form one gigantic harmonious world.