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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.

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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
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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Establishment Fact Right Word Yourself
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Death Hate Lost Man Myself Name Return Young
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
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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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Empty Heart Light Room Window
If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Deep Follow Teacher True Wisdom
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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Beginning Consistent Glow Greatness Heaven Point
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.

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