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.
ZHUANGZIOnly fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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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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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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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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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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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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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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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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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