If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
ZHUANGZIThe ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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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 Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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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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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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