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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.

Zhuangzi

The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
ZHUANGZI

Beautiful Description Nature World
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
ZHUANGZI

Enjoyment Goodness Laughter Run
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
ZHUANGZI

Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
The 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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Capacity Clear Eyes Mindset Organ Wisdom
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
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.
ZHUANGZI

Life Point Purpose
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
ZHUANGZI

Butterfly Dreams Himself Incarnation
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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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
ZHUANGZI

Beyond Creativity Expression Myself Realize Thinking Willing
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy

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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