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.
ZHUANGZITrue depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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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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The eyes envy the mind.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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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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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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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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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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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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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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