Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang.
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his integrity. For this reason, he has integrity. The person of inferior integrity never loses sight of his integrity; For this reason, he lacks integrity.
Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil.
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.
If you want to lead them you must place yourself behind them.