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.
ZHUANGZIAll existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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