Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
ZHUANGZIThe greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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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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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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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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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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