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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
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Deep Existence Forget Literature Meaning Poet Word Yourself
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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Children Deep Learning Live Talk Teacher
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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Enjoyment Goodness Laughter Run
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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Difficult Fortunate Gratitude Lose Moments Myself Opportunity Possession Realize Snow Strength Trouble 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
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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Animal Drink Hairs Horse Nature Protection Reality Skin
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Artificial Destiny Fame Natural Sacrifice Virtue
All 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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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World

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