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Emptiness Quote by Zhuangzi

“Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.” quote by Zhuangzi — Download Open image

“Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.”

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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world,…

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

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If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing…

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Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do…

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If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things…

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As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear,…

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and…

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Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary…

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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget…

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Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a…

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Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

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I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling…

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Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to…

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“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

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But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it…

I got this emptiness inside that got me fighting for approval because I missed out on my daddy saying, Way to Go.

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“As we see it, space is possible only when the primordial Being swallows emptiness. Space is born when the Being accepts emptiness, the Nonbeing,…

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But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

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