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.
ZHUANGZIUnderstanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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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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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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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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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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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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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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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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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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