Jun Ming Chen

Jun Ming Chen grew up between two languages and two ways of seeing. Born into a family of tea merchants, he moved to Europe to study comparative philosophy and never fully returned.

He has studied the Tao Te Ching for over twenty years, not as an academic but as a reader who keeps returning to the same eighty-one chapters the way some people return to the same trail.

His teachers were not professors. They were his grandmother, who poured tea without speaking, a woodworker who carved for forty years without signing his work, and the books themselves, read slowly, one chapter per season, until the seasons and the chapters became the same thing.

He lives quietly, writes in the mornings, and believes that the best philosophy fits on a single page.

365 Days of Taoism is his first book.