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Thursday, 16 June 2011

TAOIST MASTERS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHIES...PART TWO


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 –

  1. Before Time, every thing was One
  2. He who understands that all is One, has conquered the inexhaustible
  3. 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)
  4. To last, one must moderate oneself, without going to the extreme in anything, always sticking to the middle way
  5. The Sage does not rejoice at births and is not affected by deaths
  6. 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.
  7. Too often those who are called Sages are only common men in the eyes of heaven
  8. One should not do violence to nature, even under pretext of putting it right.
  9. The complex should stay complex, the simple, simple
  10.  No! Goodness and fairness are not natural sentiments; otherwise they should be more apparent in the world
  11.  The common people kill themselves for money; the educated for reputation and nobles for the glory of their house
  12.  Alas, the artificial carried away the natural; in consequence peace and charity disappeared from the world
  13. I repeat, if the race of politicians come to be extinct, brigands would disappear and there would be perfect peace in this world
  14. 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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