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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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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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Beginning End Exercise Flow Religious Road Spirituality Thinking
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Different Man Mistake Standard Truth Ultimate Yourself
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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Beginning Born Death Existence Limitation Philosophy Spiritual Start
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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Admire Judgement Man Strength Walk Way
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Awake Dreams Myself Yourself
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy

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