Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
ZHUANGZIGood fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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The eyes envy the mind.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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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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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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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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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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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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