...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body. — Zhuangzi Body Copy Share Image
Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human? — Zhuangzi Butterfly Copy Share Image
The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Fish Copy Share Image
The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right… — Zhuangzi Action Copy Share Image
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have… — Zhuangzi Charity 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 enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Attention Copy Share Image
When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake… — Zhuangzi Awakening Copy Share Image
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot… — Zhuangzi Education Copy Share Image
Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he… — Zhuangzi Archery Copy Share Image
The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.… — Zhuangzi Butterfly Copy Share Image
True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like… — 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 Adversaries Copy Share Image
Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the… — Zhuangzi Men 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
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn… — Zhuangzi Autumn Copy Share Image
“Quand on a compris ce que sont le commencement, la noblesse, l'intelligence, la transformation, l'infiini, la foi et la sérénité, alors on… — Zhuangzi Graduation 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 Exercise 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 Acceptance 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 Bliss Copy Share Image
“You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. — 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
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance. — Zhuangzi Ignorance Copy Share Image
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
