The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
ZHUANGZIA battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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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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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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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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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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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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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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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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A path is made by walking on it.
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