The true man breathes with his heels.
ZHUANGZIMen do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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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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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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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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