We cling to our opinions, as though everything depended on it.
Yet its have no permanence; like seasons, they slowly fade away.
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Men honour what lies within the sphere of their knowledge,
not realizing how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Flow with whatever happening and let your mind free,
centred it by accepting whatever you are doing.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
All things are really one.
We take the beautiful as valuable, and the ugly as foul.
The foul may turn valuable, and the valuable turn into foul.
I dreamed I was a butterfly flitting around happily; then I awoke
Now I wonder, am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man or
am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly?
Zhuangzi : See how the fishes play around where they please.
That's what fish really enjoy!
Huizi : You're not a fish, how do you know what fish enjoy?
Zhuangzi : You're not me, how you know I know what fish enjoy?
Huizi : I'm certainly not you, so I don't know what you know.
On the other hand, you're certainly not a fish
so that still proves you don't know what fish enjoy?
Zhuanji : Let's go back to your original question.
You asked me how I know what fish enjoy,
so you already knew I knew it when you asked the question.
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