A path is made by walking on it.
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
The sound of water says what I think.
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.