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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

Zhuangzi

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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Hide Himself Man Perfection Person Respect Sight
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
ZHUANGZI

Awake Dreams Myself Yourself
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
ZHUANGZI

Allow Natural Satisfaction Yourself
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?
ZHUANGZI

Beyond Creativity Expression Myself Realize Thinking Willing
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
ZHUANGZI

Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
ZHUANGZI

Journey Path Way
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
ZHUANGZI

Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
ZHUANGZI

Death Drive Human Knowledge Life Limitation Oneself Pursuit
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
ZHUANGZI

Enjoyment Goodness Laughter Run
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Division Fast Forget Hold People Return See
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
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
ZHUANGZI

Establishment Fact Right Word Yourself
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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Argument Clear Difference Need Right

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