Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.” — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!” — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life. — 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
