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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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried little understanding is cramped and busy
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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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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.
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It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.
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The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.
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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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