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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

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I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I se...more

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Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I h...more

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So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yi...more

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Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

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The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. H...more

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It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has duration yet no beginning or en...more