When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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