In this Part 2, I have more of such ancient Taoist wisdom from Zhuang Zi unless otherwise stated . The way to read this is to contemplate, meditate on these wise sayings –
- Before Time, every thing was One
- He who understands that all is One, has conquered the inexhaustible
- Who am I in reality? A butterfly who dreams he is Zhuang Zi, or Zhuang Zi who dreamt he was a butterfly? 9The most famous quote from him)
- To last, one must moderate oneself, without going to the extreme in anything, always sticking to the middle way
- The Sage does not rejoice at births and is not affected by deaths
- Now this whole is the Tao, It can be transmitted but not grasped, apprehended but not seen; it existed before Heaven and Earth were formed. It was before formless matter, before space, before the worlds, before time.
- Too often those who are called Sages are only common men in the eyes of heaven
- One should not do violence to nature, even under pretext of putting it right.
- The complex should stay complex, the simple, simple
- No! Goodness and fairness are not natural sentiments; otherwise they should be more apparent in the world
- The common people kill themselves for money; the educated for reputation and nobles for the glory of their house
- Alas, the artificial carried away the natural; in consequence peace and charity disappeared from the world
- I repeat, if the race of politicians come to be extinct, brigands would disappear and there would be perfect peace in this world
- It is artificial knowledge, against nature, which has caused all the ills of the world and the unhappiness of all those who inhabit it
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