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“People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.”

People Knows Real Pleasure Greater Position Cold Fame Hunger Pleasant Taoism Distress Anonymity Distressing

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If you fear that people will know if you do something bad, then there is something good in bad. If you are eager for people to know when you do something good, then there is something bad in good.”

People Ifs Knows Taoism

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.”

People Sometimes Heaven Sports Fate Trouble Hero Mercy Adversity Prepared Ease Enlightened Taoism Stride Unfathomable Suppressing

Author:Zicheng Hong

“One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.”

Should Trying Mean Joy Spirit Bases Taoism Misfortunes Nurture Avoiding Summoning

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.”

Feels Mind Humans Desire Feet Truth Is Clarity Taoism Broads Openness

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.”

People Should Water Accepting Clear Produce Capacity Fishes Soil Enlightened Taoism Solitary Crops Perfectionist Manure Impurity

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions."”

Ifs Has Beens Said Easy Difficult Worry Progress Horse Taoism Metals Affliction Disgrace Mold Tamed Take It Easy Wild Horses

Author:Zicheng Hong

“...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.”

People World Greed Taoism

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind is awake and alert, sitting aloof in the middle of it all, then these plunderers change and become members of the household.”

Ifs Mind Eye Desire Emotion Opinion Seeing Middle Members Sitting Ears Hearing Awake Internals Taoism Household Aloof

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.”

Ifs Feelings Progress Influence Achievement Strive Realms Reaching Taoism Shed Soar Sage Mundane Lofty Great Achievement

Author:Zicheng Hong

“In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.”

Ifs Spirit Creation Achievement Perfection Harm Ghost Fulfillment Taoism Resent Deranged Incompleteness Resent You

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?”

People Ifs Giving Should Wells Hard Girl House Poor Giving Up Hard Times Taoism Good People Elegance

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.”

Ifs Shows Action Busy Taoism Leisure Tranquility Hypocritical Lax

Author:Zicheng Hong

“When thoughts arise, as soon as you sense them heading on the road of desire, bring them right back onto the road of reason. Once they arise, notice them, once you notice them, you can change them. This is the key to turning calamity into fortune, rising from death and returning to life.”

Reason Desire Keys Fortune Arise Rising Taoism Calamity Headings

Author:Zicheng Hong

“In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it.”

Kind Helping Realizing Situation Tears Weapons Adversity Medicine Pleasant Taoism Surround

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.”

Ifs Enjoy Regret Drug Destruction Bones Harm Guts Taoism Delightful Delicious No Regrets Decadence Delicious Food Delightful Things

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.”

Action Ordinary Careful Taoism Unusual

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.”

Integrity Please Be Good Compromise Taoism Annoying Being Bad

Author:Zicheng Hong

“When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.”

Matter Secret Hero Disappointment Taoism Reckless Hypocritical True Hero

Author:Zicheng Hong

“A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.”

May Moments Joy Turns Causes Too Much Pieces Produce Gratitude Thousand Gold Lifetime Favors Taoism Enmity Much Love Aloofness

Author:Zicheng Hong

“People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.”

People Ifs Should Influence Skills Weakness Treats Treated Spite Taoism Stubborn Attacking Shortcomings Stubbornness Tact

Author:Zicheng Hong

“When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.”

People Thinking Self Silent Careful Taoism Serving Be Careful Self Serving Inscrutable Careful What You Say

Author:Zicheng Hong

“A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit night. The weather may be inconstant, but the sky remains the same. The substance of the human mind should also be like this.”

Way Giving Should Mind Humans May Night Clear Sky Remains Storm Rage Weather Substance Taoism Human Mind Lightning Thunder Sunny Sunny Day Thunder And Lightning

Author:Zicheng Hong

“To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.”

People Attitude Bears Function Endless Deception Insult Taoism

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.”

People Ifs Mind Body Hands Accepting Benefits Unexpected Taoism Hardship Mind And Body

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.”

Way Feelings Body Universe Emotion Taoism

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.”

Ifs Giving Feels Conscious Stranger Generosity Taoism Indebted

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.”

Form Steps Behavior Careful Taoism

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?”

House Virtue Talent Masters Affair Manage Servant Taoism Mischief

Author:Zicheng Hong

“To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.”

Ifs Way Giving Taoism Villain Trapped Rats Knaves

Author:Zicheng Hong

“When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.”

People Ifs Helping Problem Speak Poor Helping Others Merit Confused Enlightened Taoism Resolve Boundless

Author:Zicheng Hong

“For those who reflect on themselves, everything they encounter is medicine. For those who attack others, every thought is a weapon. One is the way to initiate all good, one is the way to deepen all evil. They are as far apart as sky and earth.”

Way Earth Evil Sky Weapons Medicine Encounters Taoism Initiate

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.”

People Should Persons Soul Spirit Forever Generations Fame Fortune Enlightened Taoism Lasting Scholarship Passing Away Ephemeral

Author:Zicheng Hong

“A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?”

May Fishes Wit Arise Taoism Hunting Ducks Insects Cleverness Sparrows Snares

Author:Zicheng Hong

“When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.”

Needs Mind Stills Pain Water Pleasure Clear Mirrors Clarity Taoism Clouded Muddle

Author:Zicheng Hong

“One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"”

Said Home Acting Doors Taoism Throwing Bowls Beggar Treasury Predecessors Throwing Away

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.”

Taoism Suspects Sincere Deceiving Deceiver Trust Others

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.”

Shows Dies Grows Spring Warm Snow Taoism Broads Breeze Nurturing Envious Freezing Considerate

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!”

People Mean Littles Matter Use Desire Turns Justice Virtue Economic Materials Tools Difficulty Solve Pity Enlightened Taoism Goods Worldly Diligence Frugality Stinginess

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.”

Way Understanding Emotional Perception Excitement Confused Enlightened Taoism Lamps Regression

Author:Zicheng Hong

“You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.”

Should Mistake Forgiving Patient Making Mistakes Taoism Be Patient Duress

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Forget Kindness Rich Authority Generosity Taoism Strict Resent Severity

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.”

Ifs Pure Purity Taoism Rejects Fanaticism

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.”

Mind Kind Heaven Stars Sun Sky Sweet Rain Angry Clouds Violent Arise Substance Gentle Taoism Autumn Fierce Joyful Breeze Dew Passing Away Frost Thunderstorm Kind Thoughts

Author:Zicheng Hong

“When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, inspire them with justice. Then the whole world enters your forge.”

People World Whole Moving Justice Inspire Violent Whole World Taoism Sincerity Honest People Gentility

Author:Zicheng Hong

“A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.”

Heart Moments Earth Heaven Kindness Generations Example Produce Fine Hundred Harmony Mood Purity Taoism Heaven And Earth

Author:Zicheng Hong

“There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.”

Humans May Feelings Fall Example Endure Taoism Endurance Brushes Pits Pathways Unstable

Author:Zicheng Hong

“You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept all that is foul. You should not be too clear in making distinctions in social interactions, for you need to accept everyone whether they are good or bad, wise or foolish.”

Way Needs Should Able Social Accepting Clear Too Much Wise Foolish Distinction Taoism Interaction Foul Social Interaction

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events and objects can be removed, but obstacles presented by social principles are hard to remove.”

Hard Desire Social Principles Events Objects Treats Obstacles Treated Abstract Sickness Remove Taoism Clinging

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Polish what you polish until it is like gold that has been refined a hundred times; anything that is done in a hurry is not deeply developed. Do what you do like a thousand-pound catapult; one who pops off too easily does not accomplish much.”

Doe Has Beens Done Thousand Hundred Gold Pops Accomplish Taoism Pounds Polish Refined Catapults

Author:Zicheng Hong

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