To have a human form is a joyful thing.
ZHUANGZIThe 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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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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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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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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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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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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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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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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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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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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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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