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.
ZHUANGZIBirth 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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One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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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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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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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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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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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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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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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.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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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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The creature born is the creature dying.
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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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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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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