You are still guided by your expectations.
ZHUANGZIThe World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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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 enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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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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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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