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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

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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
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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Awakening Dreams Greatness Realize Wake Up
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Born Compare Death Life Possible
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Greatness Mindset Person Tragedy
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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Awake Easy Fools Imagination Reality Understand
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Aware Confusion Fools Worst
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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Argument Clear Difference Need Right
For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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Chaos Excellence People Strive
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Attention Enlightenment Equality Mirror Respond Welcome

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