A path is made by walking on it.
ZHUANGZIThe 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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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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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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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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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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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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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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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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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