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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Different Power Stop Wall
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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Forget Himself Man Word
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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Capacity Clear Eyes Mindset Organ Wisdom
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Lost Man Need Religion Water
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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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
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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Desire Fade Happiness Loss Nature Vulgar Worth
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.
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Beginning End Exercise Flow Religious Road Spirituality Thinking
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Help Man Old Perfection
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
The eyes envy the mind.
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Eyes Jealous Mindset
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Greatness Nation Prison Rule

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