When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
ZHUANGZIWhere can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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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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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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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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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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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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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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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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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