If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
ZHUANGZIEasy 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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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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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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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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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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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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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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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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