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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

Zhuangzi

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
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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Eyes Goodness Hearing Listening Myself Sight Talk
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Affirmation Attachment Negative Oneself Religious
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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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Better Choice King Man Position Stream Wisdom World
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Activity Himself Live Nature
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Empty Heart Light Room Window
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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Body Chance Endurance Escape Freedom Joy Possession Sage Transformation World
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
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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Establishment Fact Right Word Yourself
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Flow Spiritual Struggle Universe Yourself
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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Butterfly Dreams Man Myself
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
The eyes envy the mind.
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Eyes Jealous Mindset
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
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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Himself Mindset Mirror Perfection Regret
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Empty Listening Mindset Recognition Spirit Wait
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
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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Beginning Easy Forget Right Yourself

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