Tao: the Pathless Path, by Osho

Let's get the author's bio out of the way first:  yes he was a nut, yes he was deported from the USA for trying to poison an entire city, yes he made a living as a controversial guru -- whose collection of Rolls Royce cars would hardly mark him as a Taoist.

But that shouldn't reflect on his writing.   And it doesn't -- you'd never know the author's capitalist preferences from this text.

But, you might conclude that the best route to success at Taoism is to be homeless.   I can't figure out if that's an accurate notion or a side-effect of the author's -- well, let's call it perspective.    The literary critique is straightforward:  it is a great idea to teach Taoism through parables, but Osho uses each parable as an argument against Confucianism.   So rather than building up Taoism, he exerts energy tearing down Confucius.   This is both exhausting and annoying.