The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
ZHUANGZITrue 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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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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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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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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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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