If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
ZHUANGZIA sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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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 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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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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