Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
ZHUANGZIWhen affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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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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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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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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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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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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