During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
ZHUANGZIGreat knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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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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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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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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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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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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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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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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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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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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