Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
ZHUANGZIThere is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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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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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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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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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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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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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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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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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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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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