Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. Zhuangzi More Quotes by Zhuangzi More Quotes From Zhuangzi People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not. Zhuangzi fatefashionmen To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous. Zhuangzi solvedangeroustrying 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. Zhuangzi simplicityviewsmind 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 letting-golosshappiness How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?...someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe that they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, and that man a herdsman- how dense! Zhuangzi hatestupiddream How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back? Zhuangzi loving-lifehatehome I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things. Zhuangzi griefairdeath 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. Zhuangzi eyesightmind The creature born is the creature dying. Zhuangzi borndyingacceptance 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. Zhuangzi wake-updreammight 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. Zhuangzi empathyunderstandingmind To examine oneself makes good use of sight. Zhuangzi oneselfusesight The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and refuse to let them out. They did not shut away their wisdom and refuse to share it. But those times were all haywire. If it had been possible for them to act, they could have done great things, bringing all to Oneness without any sign of doing so. However, the times were not favorable and it was not possible, so they put down deep roots, remained still and waited. this was the Tao by which they survived. Zhuangzi onenesswisdomroots The ultimate happiness is doing nothing. Zhuangzi ultimate-happinessdoing-nothinghappiness The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible. Zhuangzi chineseworld Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened? Zhuangzi caughtinsightdream Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune? Zhuangzi lossmennight 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?' Zhuangzi starsmoonjewels The men of old breathed clear down to their heels. Zhuangzi breathinghe-manmen The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity. Zhuangzi unityspacesky
