Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
ZHUANGZIThere is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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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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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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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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The creature born is the creature dying.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the 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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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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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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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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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