Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nothingness and Dao: A Time before Being
The Nature of Nothingness
The Language of Nothingness
The Oneness of Dao
Returning to Dao, Overcoming Nihilism
Conclusion
2. Dao, the One, and the Question of Being
Original Being qua the Thing
The Thing's Unveiling
The Trace and the Traceless Sage
Wandering in the Harmony of Dao
Conclusion
3. Dao and the Time of Nothingness
Dao and Cosmological Time
Human Measured Time
Conclusion
4. Zhuangzi and the Life Praxis of Being Useless
Useless by Proxy and the Proxy of Usefulness
Learning from the Useless Tree
Conclusion
5. Discovering Dao through Self-Forgetting
The Mundaneness of Forgetting
Losing Oneself in Forgetfulness
Sitting in Forgetfulness
A Taste of Spiritual Freedom: Composing the Heart-Mind
Conclusion
6. Wandering Carefree in Nothingness
Cosmological Freedom
Three Heavenly Principles of Freedom
Nothingness the Great Harmonizer
Freedom as Carefree Wandering
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

David Chai is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.