A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
ZHUANGZIMen honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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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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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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