What is Daoism? Ancient Chinese Daoism (or Taoism) has fascinated both East and West with its poetic visions of body and cosmos, of art and nature, with its teachings on self-forgetfulness and gentle restraint. Until today it lives on as religious practice and philosophical direction and conquers like Buddhism in the consequence of growing interest for eastern thinking increasingly also the modern and postmodern world. Hans-Georg Möller offers a comprehensible and stimulating insight into the thought processes of this philosophy. A presentation of Daoist views - such as the symbolism of water or femininity - and new translations and interpretations of such central and yet often misunderstood parables as that of the butterfly dream, of the joy of the fish or of the flute playing of heaven introduce.