All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
ZHUANGZIThe ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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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.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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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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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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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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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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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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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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