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You are still guided by your expectations.

You are still guided by your expectations.

Zhuangzi
Expectations, Tao, Stills

People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?

Zhuangzi
Order, People, Misguided

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Zhuangzi
Home, Years, Taoism
Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.49, Columbia University Press

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

Zhuangzi
Wise, Wisdom, Virtue

To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.

Zhuangzi
Exercise, Taoism, Firsts

The true man breathes with his heels.

Zhuangzi
Life, Men, Breathing
Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.78, Columbia University Press

When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.

Zhuangzi
All Things

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Zhuangzi
Passion, Journey, Walking Away

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Zhuangzi
Abiding, Sage, Portal

There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.

Zhuangzi
Nature, Powerful, Science

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.

Zhuangzi
Happiness, Letting Go, Loss

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.