I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
ZHUANGZITo regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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