If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
ZHUANGZIIf the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
ZHUANGZILet your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
ZHUANGZIWhen 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.
ZHUANGZIBirth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
ZHUANGZIRewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
ZHUANGZILife is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
ZHUANGZIHuman life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
ZHUANGZILuck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
ZHUANGZIThe torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
ZHUANGZIA path is made by walking on it.
ZHUANGZIFish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
ZHUANGZIThe ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
ZHUANGZIThe 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?
ZHUANGZIGood order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
ZHUANGZIA frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZHUANGZIWhen the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
ZHUANGZI