Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue.… — 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.… — 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
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“It can be passed on, but not received. It can be obtained, but not seen. 可傳而不可受，可得而不可見.” — 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
