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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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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Conflict Harmony Life Stop
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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Desire Fade Happiness Loss Nature Vulgar Worth
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old
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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Enjoyment Goodness Laughter Run
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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Alone Ancient Essence Fundamental Intelligence Quiet Spiritual Technique
The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Body Death Life Share Store
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Deep Existence Forget Literature Meaning Poet Word Yourself
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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Earth Fortune Goodness heavy Stay Way
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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Chaos Excellence People Strive
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Aware Confusion Fools Worst
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Ignorance People Philosophy

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