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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Zhuangzi

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
ZHUANGZI

Beginning Philosophy
The sound of water says what I think.
ZHUANGZI

Myself Sound Thinking Water
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
ZHUANGZI

Enough Nature Necessary
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
ZHUANGZI

Alone Goodness Result
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
ZHUANGZI

Earth Life Nature Return
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
ZHUANGZI

Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
ZHUANGZI

Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
ZHUANGZI

Absence Luck Principle
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
ZHUANGZI

Form Human Joy
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
ZHUANGZI

Action Root Silence
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
ZHUANGZI

Argument Energy Exhaust Form Heaven Point Soul Tree
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
ZHUANGZI

Attention Enlightenment Equality Mirror Respond Welcome
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZHUANGZI

Deep Ocean One Liner
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
ZHUANGZI

Calm Earth Heaven Purity
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
ZHUANGZI

Body Chance Endurance Escape Freedom Joy Possession Sage Transformation World
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
ZHUANGZI

God Himself Man Reward Work

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

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