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„The sound of water says what I think.“
„Chuang Tzu’s wife died and Hui Tzu came to console him, but Chuang Tzu was sitting, legs akimbo, bashing a battered tub and singing. Hui Tzu said, ‘You lived as man and wife, she reared your children. At her death surely the least you should be doing is to be on the verge of weeping, rather than banging the tub and singing: this is not right!’ Chuang Tzu said, ‘Certainly not. When she first died, I certainly mourned just like everyone else! However, I then thought back to her birth and to the very roots of her being, before she was born. Indeed, not just before she was born but before the time when her body was created. Not just before her body was created but before the origin of life’s breath. Her life’s breath wrought a transformation and she had a body. Her body wrought a transformation and she was born. Now there is yet another transformation and she is dead. She is like the four seasons in the way that spring, summer, autumn and winter follow each other. She is now at peace, lying in her chamber, but if I were to sob and cry it would certainly appear that I could not comprehend the ways of destiny. This is why I stopped.
„To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor.“
„Perfect happiness is keeping yourself alive, and only actionless action can have this affect.“
„:Of a person who has limited life experience and hence world view; see 井底之蛙.“
„Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.“
„To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.“
„A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.“
„Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?“
„The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.“
„If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.“
„The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that, there is no limit to dimensions.“
„When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.“
„We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening“
„Those in positions of power spend day and night plotting and pondering about what to do. The body is treated in a very careless way. People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. If they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate.“
„Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.“
„And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?“
„You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog – he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect – he’s bound to a single season.“
„Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!“
„During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.“
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