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Zhuangzi
Philosopher
Poet
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Peking
Zhuang Zi
Chuang Tzŭ
Chuang Tzu
Chuangtzŭ
Chuangtzu
Zhuang Zhou
Chuang Chou
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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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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
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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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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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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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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!
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried little understanding is cramped and busy
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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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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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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