In search of the prototype of Taoist thought, this article aims to propose an observation that the argument on the “practice of mind” (hsin shu) in the Hsin shu I Chapter of the Kuang Tzu includes the oldest element of the Taoist philosophy. The author also tries to show that this element was incorporated into the thought of the Chuang Tzu. This study observes that the argument on the practice of mind in the Kuang Tzu has been incorporated into the parable on the “mental fast” (hsin chai) ion the Jen chien shi Chapter of the Chuang Tzu and the prable on the butcher Ting in the Yang sheng chu Chapter. The similar ideas are also found in other parables in the Chuang Tzu, eg., those in the Jen chien shi Chapter, the Ta tsung shi Chapter, the Yü yan Chapter. The arguments in the parable on “sitting and forgetting”, and “solitariness” in Yü yan Chapter demonstrate the culmination of Taoist thought, and such a completeness of the thought leads us to assume that these parables have been taken into form at the almost same period as the Nei ye Chapter of the Kuang Tzu was composed. On th4e other hand, ideas found in the Tsai you Chapter, Tien tao Chapter, and Tian ti Chapter insinuate the “declination” of Taosist tenet, and this phenomenon implies that these parables are presumably composed latter than the Nei ye Chapter. These facts suggest that the ideas and arguments in the so-called the “Four chapters” of the Kuang Tzu went under long span of the evolutionary process of its thought. In sum, this study attempts to show the thought of the Chuang Tzu has been taken into form under the influence of the idea and argument in the Hsin shu I Chapter as well as the Hsin shu II Chapter. It is in such an influential relationship that we can find a clue to understand the developmental process of the pre-Qin Taoist theory. This article also provides a picture which illustrates aforementioned influential relationship of ideas and arguments between the Kuang Tzu and the Chuang Tzu.