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The Master said, “For one who never asks, ‘What should I do? What should I do?’ I, for my part, can do nothing about him.”
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4.8 The Master said, “In the morning, hear the Dao (the Way); in the evening, die content!”
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In the still of the night, when a man sits alone in meditation, the first thing that happens is that his inordinate desires disappear, and his true self holds sway.
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The allusion to “grinding bricks into mirrors” originates from a Zen Buddhist parable.