The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
