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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

Zhuangzi

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
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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Awakening Dreams Greatness Realize Wake Up
Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Death Deep Diversity Live Men Nature Taste Water
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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Mad Man Negative Positive
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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Ignorance People Philosophy
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Affirmation Attachment Negative Oneself Religious
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
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Butterfly Dreams Himself Incarnation
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return

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