When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
ZHUANGZIThe World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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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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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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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 path is made by walking on it.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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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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