Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
ZHUANGZILook at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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