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.
ZHUANGZIThe saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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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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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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