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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
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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Affect Ceremony Charity Donation Lost Man Mindset Music Nature Original Satisfaction Seek
The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Calm Compete Complete Disturb Ease Manifestation Priest Rest Sage Virtue
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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Forget Himself Man Word
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Awake Easy Fools Imagination Reality Understand
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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Eyes Goodness Hearing Listening Myself Sight Talk
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Listening Reckless Talk Try Word Yourself
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old

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