Look 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.
ZHUANGZITo 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.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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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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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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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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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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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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