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.”
4.8 The Master said, “In the morning, hear the Dao (the Way); in the evening, die content!”
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.
The allusion to “grinding bricks into mirrors” originates from a Zen Buddhist parable.