<p>Brook Ziporyn’s invention of “Mystical Atheism” can be understood as a modern and radical extension of a key theme in the Daoist classic <i>Zhuangzi</i>: its critique of exclusivity. By placing the rejection of exclusivity at its core, it redefines atheism: no longer as the exclusion of the divine source of meaning, but as the unconditional inclusion of all meaning. It presents a total denial of integrating all life experiences within a framework of evaluation which reduces existence to a monocentric pursuit of determinate goals. This central impulse is evident in Ziporyn’s earlier work on Chinese Buddhism and Daoism and can be traced back to what may be termed a Zhuangzian critique of exclusivity. Within the history of Chinese philosophy, the Zhuangzian critique of exclusivity was continually developed and applied, evolving from its original role of deconstructing the “this/that”and “right/wrong” dichotomy to being deployed across new philosophical dimensions by later thinkers—many of whom are central to Ziporyn’s own work. By comparing these selected historical interpretations, we can better understand the fundamental advance of Ziporyn’s Mystical Atheism, which represents a conscious examination and radical culmination of this entire interpretive trajectory. This historical trajectory, which progressively liberates us from dogma, universal values, and the very notion of an “other shore,” culminates in Ziporyn’s Mystical Atheism as liberation from salvation itself.</p>